I have learned that a bout with restlessness can best be met with curiosity rather than cranky irritation. Usually it is a flag waving that creativity is about to explode and I have to be patient for its unfolding. Restlessness is full of mixed signals....first we feel one thing and then we reverse it. East looks good....but then the sun setting in the West looks better....and we are fragmented, volatile and changeable. It is when our course is in the midst of change that we cannot seem to depend on ourselves.....and really, we don't need to.....it will become clear as we open ourselves to change and the invasive energy of creating something new. Being open to change with the curiosity of a student, will open our eyes and ears to the signals of the Universe. We ask with restless irritation...."What the hell is it?" But when destiny knocks we say, "Ah-hah! That's what!" It is colorful and expansive as we patiently allow it to come into full view. Inspiration comes and we are irrationally, intuitively and insistently inspired to create beyond our restlessness.
"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now." Henry David Thoreau
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