Always Now-and-Not-Yet

In the mailbox this morning, aptly named Thor's Day:

Between the now and the not yet there is a space, however minute, not unlike the moment between the inbreath and the outbreath, between the letters you are reading, the words on a page or spoken as we engage with others. In that space resides our choice-making manifesting love or fear with all the power and beauty of the universe.

Joanna Macy, as far back as 2011, cited The Zen teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh, who was asked, “What do we most need to do to save our world?” His answer: “What we most need to do is to hear within us the sounds of the Earth crying.”

Having fallen deaf, benumbed, and in blind denial we are now being stripped of our delusions. Not all transitions are as lovely as a sunrise. The uncertainty of new days ahead is uncomfortable, even frightening to some and will be painful to many. Yet: “Uncertainty, when accepted, sheds a bright light on the power of intention. That is what you can count on: not the outcome, but the motivation you bring, the vision you hold, the compass setting you choose to follow.” – Joanna Macy.

The unfolding and enfolding is always now-and-not-yet.