11/22/2025
“Children learn by repetition. And by their repetition we can learn too. We can learn how cynical we are, how busy and easily bored, how impatient and restless. Those are things we can see in ourselves many times a day. It can take far longer - a life time - for us to realize what they, with their brilliantly open minds, still see quite plainly: nothing, absolutely nothing repeats.
Every moment of this life is altogether new. They do things again and again because they haven’t yet calculated the probabilities; they haven’t yet anticipated the ending. They are still doing what we have ceased to do: see the infinite possibilities. They are not yet cutting life short by their jaded cleverness. “Been there, done that,” we say, as we dispose of our unrealized potential.
It is impossible to conceive of the true, dynamic nature of life. It is ever flowing, never arriving at the same place twice, indeed, never even pausing to arrive. And yet, we think we’ve seen it all.”
~Momma Zen, by Karen Maezen Miller
