{"id":27,"date":"2013-06-03T00:14:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T00:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:05:08","slug":"learning-to-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/learning-to-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Learning to swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.\u201d &#8211;Bruce Lee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I was researching quotes for one of my inpiration posts, I found this one by Bruce Lee. It made me laugh. A rueful, hilarious, self-deprecating laugh. I like to wander on dry land imagining swimming. I read dry texts and imagine I am understanding the nature of something.<\/p>\n<p>So rarely do I just jump in. But I&#8217;ve started. I&#8217;ve set myself up for opportunities. Shown up in the face of fear. I&#8217;ve gurbled and flailed around in deeper waters than I&#8217;ve ever known or experienced before and I&#8217;ve learned to swim in all kinds of new ways.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to swim this experience. I&#8217;m in the water and I&#8217;m showing my vulnerability and I&#8217;m ready for it. It doesn&#8217;t happen until it&#8217;s ready to happen. I couldn&#8217;t be here without having been well-loved in the past. I couldn&#8217;t be here without building muscles toward this kind of reaching. I couldn&#8217;t be here without a lot of tears and soul-ache. At some point I chose to move towards joy, mystery and amazement. Miracles. Intricate and small or monumentally large miracles.<\/p>\n<p>So I am writing. I am here. I am experimenting with writing the world as I experience it. Imperfectly and mostly-blind but I&#8217;m hoping those muscles that are weak in the face of this task become stronger, wider, more supple, more knowledgeable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flying from the edge of the cliff, headed for water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.\u201d &#8211;Bruce Lee As I was researching quotes for one of my inpiration posts, I found this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/learning-to-swim\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}