Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don’t mistake other people’s questions for your own. - David Whyte

Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of the privilege of a particular form of participation, coming to know the way we hold the conversation of life and perhaps, above all, the miracle that there is a particular something rather than an abstracted nothing and we are a very particular part of that particular something.

What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.