Courageous Step
Natalie Goldberg, a choreographer, how from small courageous step she became choreographer.
Having been often sick as a child, she grew up not trusting her own body because of its weakness.
In high school, she had modern dance one day a week, and as her body changed, her confidence improved. She developed muscles and strength. She felt stronger. She liked her body which she had previously not liked because she thought it was too skinny. She began to trust herself more socially.
She learned to trust silence, to stand quietly, to be okay with doing nothing, to use silence to mindfully prepare for action. I no longer saw silence as time wasted. It allowed her to explore her inner richness and value what deeper thoughts rose to the surface to guide her life and movement.
What Natalie did when she decided to learn modern dance. She was having weak body, so lot of fear. Intellectually she had nothing to take steps to learn modern dance.
The more you feel full of doubts and still you go on the journey, that makes the difference. The stupid person, the imbecile, the idiot may not feel any doubts, he may simply believe, but he is not going on any adventure; he cannot understand what adventure is. He is just accidental, he is at the mercy of the winds. But the intelligent person is bound to feel doubts. In spite of the doubts one has to go; that’s how life is. This is the law of life. In spite of all the doubts one has to go.
Take small step in your life, take small decision where you will trust only yourself and work on that, like Natalie and see what difference you find in your life.
Life is an open secret. Everything is available, nothing is hidden. All that is needed, is just take step into Nothingness and be with your Emptiness.
