Genius

"Genius is both a specific gift and a possibility that has not yet occurred; it is not fixed internal commodity to be exploited and brought to the surface, but a conversation to be followed, deepened, understood and celebrated. Genius is the meeting between inheritance and horizon, between what has been told, what can be told and what is yet to be told, between our practical abilities and our relationship to the gravitational mystery that pulls on us. Our genius is to understand, and stand beneath the set of stars present at our birth, and from that place to seek the hidden, single star, over the night horizon, we did not know we were following."

David Whyte, Consolations

A beautiful celebration of the vivid contact boundaries between the swirling inner world of the gifted and the outer world's abundant giftedness. An important reminder that we are always, simultaneously, interacting with the known and the unknown, the space of possibilities born from our sense of exploration and a courageous unassuming nature towards the boundaryless connections that make up life. A heartfelt encouragement to respect diversity as the cornerstone of our interconnections, to always look upon each other with potential in mind while respecting the incremental, emergent and idiosyncratic nature of anything one might deem progress on forehand. Not to claim another's genius is to provide the creative space for the other to thoroughly feel one's impending expansion through a subtle, friendly accompaniment. Giftedness is an exchange, an art of giving and receiving, a phenomenal expression of deep reception in interaction with, not to be forgotten, generous, nondemanding giving. Then, genius will show itself eagerly, raising its spirit from the margins of our known worlds.