Breaking open to our destiny : Mark Nepo

The point is not to deify the events that break us down or open. But to accept the mysterious fact that what we think we want, what we think we strive for, is often not the goal at all – just what we hold on to in order to discover what is truly calling us.

Often, when we think we’re building one thing, we’re building another, or we’re the one being built. When we think we’re giving one things, we’re often giving another, or we’re the ones being given to. When we think we’re enduring one thing, we’re often being undone by life into the birth of a gift we’ve been carrying for just this opening.

The point is, we’re challenged to follow our heart beyond our intentions in order to find our quiet destiny, the way a tulip or peony follows its urge to break ground hardly imagining its life in blossom.

Mark Nepo