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Jan 1

Robert Augustus Masters on Leaning into Your Edge

If it’s easy, it’s not our edge.

If it’s not one hell of a challenge, it’s not our edge. If it doesn’t shake us to our marrow, it’s not our edge.

If it’s easily witnessed, it’s not our edge. If it doesn’t bring up huge resistance in us, resistance that can toss aside therapeutic and spiritual interventions like toothpicks in a hurricane, it’s not our edge.

The edge is where the deepest growth happens. It’s also where contexts lose their mind, meaning is up for grabs, personal universes disintegrate, and evolutionary imperatives decisively seize the foreground.

And, perhaps most of all, the edge is the frontier of the known. It eludes all cartography, our direct contact with it providing whatever guidance and navigational clues we need.

Most avoid the edge, some flirt with it, and some, whether foolhardy or spiritually ambitious, step off it prematurely — thereby denying themselves the grounding and experience needed to truly digest what’s happening — but few develop any intimacy with it.

But intimacy with the edge is essential if we are to be our true size.

We must find some real footing on the edge, some strongly felt sense of ground, if we — at the right time — are to truly take flight from it. Why slip off it, when we can use it as a springboard? This is metaphor, and it is also much more.

What lies beyond the edge is never other than right here, whenever we peel back our core fear.

The edge is the threshold to Absolute Mystery in the raw. It is always right here, always already present, existing as an invitation that will not go away and as a familiarity-transcending knowingness in which revelation supplants explanation. At this very moment it beckons, no matter how mundane or consuming or deadening your current activity may be.

The edge is where we die into a deeper life, a life in which love, awareness, passion, integrity, and courage function as one.

Some say to look before you leap, and others say to look after you leap, but why not look as you leap?