In Living Beautifully Pema Chodron opens by quoting Agnes de Mille:
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
It captures the Alice in Wonderland method. It captures the scientific method. It captures the Buddhist method.
It's the answer to why you may not be where you were supposed to end up. It's not that you made a mistake. It's that you followed a different process. Because that's what you consider the point of it all to be.
