I like to think I’m pretty open-minded, pretty “live and let live,” but in practice I sometimes have a hard time releasing the labels of “right” and “wrong” because they help my brain analyze and create order. For example, in this situation she was right, and I was wrong. Doing this can help me make sense of and justify my actions, words, thoughts, and those of others.
Today I challenge myself to release that need for ordering and categorizing and that binary way of thinking. I challenge myself to allow space for question marks to hover, to broaden and open to greater inclusion.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.”— Rumi, excerpt from “A Great Wagon”
Krystal Barschig 