Antonia Damasio writes, "We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them."
Every day now I am discovering what I used not to allow myself to see. This revelation is simultaneously reassuring and terrifying. It is as though the blinders I wore for so long to survive have been lifted from my eyes. What I see right in front of me, and what I can glimpse on the horizon, are allowing me to begin a life of authenticity that I used not to think possible.
I am starting to feel everything keenly, both what is joyful and what is sorrowful, in what Damasio calls "the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day."
I know exactly what you mean. I love Divakaruni's words in "What the Body Knows." She says, "The body knows. . . You can't fool the body. It knows what's being done to it. At the right time, it will take revenge." I think the body, at the right time, tells your mind that you are finally ready to see.
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