March 2019
Leap and the Net Will Appear
03/02/19 Filed in: Manifestation
I love the quote by John Burroughs, "Leap and the net will appear." Have I found it to be true in my own life? Absolutely. But does that mean that every time I take a leap, or embark on a grand new adventure, that I proceed with calm, clarity and trust? Not always!
I don't think of myself as a very daring person, and for the most part, I live a very peaceful and quiet life. Yet, when I look back, at least once every decade, I've made major life changes that required a great deal of courage and a willingness to risk.
Sometimes these shifts and changes emerged out of extreme pain and loss: a divorce, a death or some other unforeseen event which forced an inner reshaping and a coming to know myself in new and deeper ways. But other times, they might have arisen because of an idea, an impulse, an aha moment, an epiphany.
Years ago, I had a moment when a clear, spontaneous vision came to me. I would take a year's sabbatical and go to live in France. How liberating, how exciting! The problem was that I knew no one there, my French was extremely rusty, and to make it financially viable, I would need to rent out my home and find a place to house sit there. Daunting? Yes, but the passion I felt burning within galvanized me. Read More…
I don't think of myself as a very daring person, and for the most part, I live a very peaceful and quiet life. Yet, when I look back, at least once every decade, I've made major life changes that required a great deal of courage and a willingness to risk.
Sometimes these shifts and changes emerged out of extreme pain and loss: a divorce, a death or some other unforeseen event which forced an inner reshaping and a coming to know myself in new and deeper ways. But other times, they might have arisen because of an idea, an impulse, an aha moment, an epiphany.
Years ago, I had a moment when a clear, spontaneous vision came to me. I would take a year's sabbatical and go to live in France. How liberating, how exciting! The problem was that I knew no one there, my French was extremely rusty, and to make it financially viable, I would need to rent out my home and find a place to house sit there. Daunting? Yes, but the passion I felt burning within galvanized me. Read More…