The Gap
That place between our out-breath and our in.
That pause between what is said and what is understood,
between one thought and the next.
Between the night and the dawn,
and between the last rays of sunshine and the gathering dusk.
The gap lies between the solid platform of obligation
and the moving train of what-if.
It is the space between sleeping and waking,
and the transition between what is expected and the exceptional.
The gap is that terrain between what we believe and what we are afraid to say,
and that moment when our life flashes before our eyes.
Lao Tzu said that in silence there is strength,
and who can argue?
For it is in the silence of the gap
that human potential eternally resides.
Push a little farther into the gap.
Breathe in, breathe out, and notice the pause.
There it is, the silent, pregnant gap.
Close your eyes and know that it is real and alive,
full of promise and empty of judgement.
It embodies the potential of growth, expansion,
and enlightenment.
Fearlessly seek the gap.
Push the known boundaries to that place that is familiar, yet unexplored.
What can you find when your breath stops?
What will you see? What do you feel?
Between the striving and the arriving, there is a space.
In the pause there is all of what could be.
It is the gap.
I'll see you there.
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