To Beginners and Ever-New Beginnings
There is something beautiful and clarifying and terrifying all at once in being at the beginning… To be a beginner is to be full of hope-filled humility, to be overflowing with eager expectation that is simultaneously held in check by the obvious gap between your aspirations and current abilities. To be a beginner is to be pregnant with dreams but nascent with skill, and then to set about the work of cultivating the life of both.
— Michael Yankoski, The Sacred Year
Happy 2016! I love this description, “Overflowing with eager expectation that is simultaneously held in check by the obvious gap between your aspirations and current abilities.”
Yes! That’s every new manuscript, isn’t it?
” pregnant with dreams but nascent with skill” Love that!
Me too. Perhaps that’s why there are so many mistakes we have to make along the way. We’re still babies learning this new thing.
Ah, I needed this…thank you for sharing. So much more positive than other “beginner” posts that I’ve been reading lately…those along the lines of a very aggressive, “If you haven’t started yet, why not? If it was important to you, you would have started already”
Reposting….Everyone needs to read this!
I love hearing this, Yvette. Happy New Year!
Wonderful quote to start the new year. Thanks for the share.
“Beautiful and clarifying and terrifying,” indeed! What a lovely, inspiring quote. Happy 2016, Caroline!