I Don't Know
We Can Never Trade Mystery for Mastery
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The more that I know, the more that I don’t know.
Socrates
I Don’t Know
I have no expectations of you
You only ever need to be
Who you are
I do not bring
Wisdom
or answers
I am not my past
All we have is
This moment
This place
This frontier
This intersection
Between
Who we were
Who we will become
Embracing all we are
Now
We hold this space
With us
For us
This most beautiful truth
Intimacy
We sit together
in this precious space
Presence
Living as one
Together
Here in
I don’t know
© Jamie Millard
We can never trade mystery for mastery! It was a long journey for myself to admit that “I don’t know”, is a comfortable place to be. Who knows what the tides will bring in today? I am living into the questions. The questions themselves are the journey and have a healing power unto themselves. One day I will grow into the answers. I am learning to hold space for myself and for others. I am learning to let go of judgement. We are all collectively living in a shared liminal space, embracing the intimate mystery of the unknown. The only certainty is uncertainty. We are already enough. We are love. The real conversation of life always exists into the now of here.
The mystery of grace will meet us where we are, but she will never leave us where she found us.
Anne Lamott
How comfortable are you with “I don’t know”?
How do we let go of mastery and embrace mystery?
How do we embrace presence into the now of here?
I believe that poetry is meant to be read out loud. Reading and listening to a poem is meditative and the words create an intimate encounter with the heartfulness of presence. Poetry is a wonderful addition to a spiritual practice as it connects us to ourselves, to others, to this world and to our spirit. I invite you listen to the poem read out loud as part of the recording shared above.
Please reach out to me if I can be of any assistance on your journey from mastery to mystery.
Lots of love,
Jamie
Thanks, Jamie. Yes, listening to a poem makes all the difference. But as you said, life is to be lived as a mystery. I know it intellectually, and I have phases when I feel it in my bones, then I get sidetracked by life and lose that feeling. And it's like I'm back to square one.
This is a beautiful invitation to get comfortable with the unknown. I love how you read your posts, so unique and captivating. 💕🙏