eureka!

4/10/2025

It was spring 1987. I was in my college freshmen Old English literature class. In the midst of Beowulf, I received the clear insight that English and math are connected. From there, I had an instantaneous understanding that EVERYthing is connected. It was a eureka! moment for me.

Directly after this memory dropped in the other day, I flashed to a book I wrote 10 years ago called The Joy Practice. I wrote about how being open is essential to being who we truly are. Specifically, being open to new ideas and thoughts that emerge.

In the last two Blissings I’ve mentioned the loop that we humans can unknowingly exist in that keeps us asleep to the richness and vastness of who we really are. So, it’s no small feat when new thoughts and ideas actually bust through this barrier.

This newness that can be so easy to dismiss is your LIFE FORCE, the very spark of YOUR life!

The conditioned mind, the one that’s been trained to follow the script, might bat that new thought or idea away and say to you, that’s ridiculous. You may even feel ridiculous based on what the script is telling you. It is in these moments that you have a choice.

This is what I mean when I say You can choose YOU, the realness of YOU. The script is not you. It may seem like you, however, I assure you, it is not. The script has been written to keep you asleep. But the Essence of You is bigger and stronger than the script!

The Magnificence that is YOU comes via multiple choice points. Saying YES to a new thought or idea feels vulnerable. Because it’s new and there is not sureness about what is next.

I’m here to tell you that although you may not know exactly what it looks like, YOU are what’s next. YOU happening. The Galaxy of YOU unfolding in real time.

The eureka! of YOU. Every damn day.

xoxo