How many times do we stop what we're doing and look at the mess around ourselves, thinking "this is impossible"? What appears impossible is only in the state of development, of Becoming - and in that moment, we don't look a thing like what we expect to look like when we're finished.
Cake batter appears nothing like a birthday cake. A toddler looks nothing like an old man. And a novice pianist sounds nothing like a virtuoso. Yet being the batter, the toddler, and the novice are all stages that are necessary in order to Become who they're going to Be. These stages are not hurdles. They're all part of the whole.
Beyond Becoming, realize that you always and already are. Even the old man is still becoming an older man. Becoming and Being are really the same thing. The batter is not yet a cake, but that's because it's busy being batter.
We rush, we push, we dream, and we delude ourselves into pursuing the future, at the expense of appreciating who we already are.
It's a trap. Don't fall into it.
