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Dear Myself, the Future Is Yesterday
Exploring Core Beliefs in Unsent Letters
This week, I’ve been thinking about core beliefs — the paradigms that walk us through life more than we walk ourselves. They create the guardrails that keep us from the ledge of the unknown, one that perhaps we might benefit from exploring.
A core belief of mine is that the purpose of life is life itself. Life does not discriminate between a bat or a human, cacti or seaweed. Life’s sole desire is to see life flourish, take new shapes, multiply. I got some recent news that seems to contradict my belief on a fundamental level. A core belief is often shown to us through the moments when lived experience contradicts it—suddenly ditching the period for a question mark.
When we crash into the limits of a fundamental belief — we’re forced to peek over the wall — and look toward an expansive horizon. Who am I to understand life’s full agenda, or discern it’s intent?
I listened to a podcast with the poet David Whyte, who praises the beautiful questions hidden in plain sight. A windowsill begs you to broaden your horizons, a door beckons you, and triggers your fear of stepping into the threshold of an unknown self.
This week, we’re diving into core beliefs and how they reveal themselves to us through the things we keep to…
