We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Interpretation
This quote encourages a transformation of mindset from negative emotions to positive attributes.
Angeles Arrien emphasizes the importance of evolving our emotional and intellectual responses. By advocating for a shift from fear to curiosity, she highlights the need to embrace the unknown with an open mind. Furthermore, she suggests relinquishing attachment and control in favor of humility and trust, fostering a more grounded approach to life's challenges and relationships.
In practice
Use this quote during a workshop about personal growth.
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
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