Always a beginner

I am always a beginner, whether I like it or not. Sometimes I notice, and there is receptivity. Other times, I don’t and am locked into identification with a story and identity.

Here and now is always fresh, new, different. Existence never repeats itself.

And there is always don’t know.

What I am familiar with is always finite within the infinite. I have limited experience. My insights are limited. The stories I am familiar with are limited. (There are always other stories out there that are more functional than the ones I am familiar with.)

Any story is a question, even if I take it as a statement. An innocent question to help my human self function in the world.

What I am – and anything is – cannot be touched by any story. A story can, at most, invite what I am to notice itself.

Initial draft…

I am always only scratching the surface.

I have limited experience. Compared to others, it is limited. As is the combined experience of humanity as a whole. It is always finite within the infinite.

I am only familiar with a few stories within any particular worldview, and I am only familiar with a few worldviews. There are innumerable possible interpretations and worldviews out there, and I – and humanity as a whole – are only aware of a few of them. Many of the ones I am not yet familiar with may make more sense than the ones I am familiar with.

There is always further to go. What is familiar to me is finite within the infinite.

Also, a story is always only a question, even if I take it as a statement. It is an innocent question about the world, to help my human self function in the world.

And what I am – that which all experience happens within and as – cannot be touched by any story. Stories can only point in the direction of it. And even when stories are about

Initial outline…

• always a beginner
  • something to just notice
    • here now, always fresh, new, different
    • always only scratching the surface
      • limited experience
      • only aware of a few interpretations within a particular worldview
      • always much further to go, far more to explore
    • a story, always a question (even if take it as a statement)