your daily rock : break old patterns
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” -Tuli Kupferberg
One interesting thing about life is that at a certain point, it all starts repeating.
Or perhaps it’s been repeating all along and it just takes a certain distance (age?) to begin seeing the patterns that emerge, again and again.
And perhaps those patterns keep emerging because we keep not seeing them, like a looping test, some sort of life exam, a great big sparkly Broadway musical of the Bill Murray film, “Groundhog Day,” with all of us playing Bill playing the weatherman searching for Punxsutawney Phil and awakening every morning to the sounds of Sonny and Cher on the radio, finally recognizing with a start that we have, in fact, been here before and that, like Bill, we’ll have to keep on doing it until we get it right—an infinite regress of doing and knowing and recognizing and starting over.
Or perhaps that’s too simplistic: perhaps we don’t have to keep repeating our patterns until we get them right, but rather must break the pattern to get to discovery instead, that place where new worlds can emerge, looking hard with an open eye at those patterns and recognizing our way out of them rather than repeating our way out of them.
I can see your patterns better than you can; the same is true of you for me.
Look back at your life. Honestly, without defensiveness or shame or guilt or regret. What patterns can you identify, however hard to reconcile with who you wish to be? Or, since we cannot see ourselves and our patterns because we need distance to do so, ask someone you trust what patterns they see in you.
Recognize your way out of patterns that don’t serve you, that keep you from your intention, your yearning.
Love,
(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
