The art of growth has to do with how quickly you admit error. What we do
is constantly make decisions from where we’re sitting; then that
decision leads to a new moment, and then in the new moment you listen
again, and often you realize that the new moment suggests that that
previous decision just led you into a new moment in which there is
another decision that isn’t gonna be consistent with the last one.
To the extent that you define yourself as somebody, it is very hard to be inconsistent, to the extent that you keep coming back into the the existential situation with the trust that if I keep listening to the moment, and keep being true to what I’m hearing, while people may be upset with me, because I am not consistent, I will stay as close to the truth as I hear it, and that’s what I can offer myself and the universe.
To the extent that you define yourself as somebody, it is very hard to be inconsistent, to the extent that you keep coming back into the the existential situation with the trust that if I keep listening to the moment, and keep being true to what I’m hearing, while people may be upset with me, because I am not consistent, I will stay as close to the truth as I hear it, and that’s what I can offer myself and the universe.
- Ram Dass -
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