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Do not stop at the door. Enter.

Published 3 months ago • 2 min read

Olivier Goetgeluck

COACHING & WORKSHOPS

Dear Reader,

The humble aim of practice is one.

Through many forms, doors, paths, detours, illusions, and mirrors, one can be led there.

The doors are not fixed authorities.

Do not stop there.

Go beyond admiring the frame, the keyhole, the material, its shine.

Enter.

Practice invites us to remember, to deepen, to trust that one sense left unmentioned on the list of five.

Senses abound - I'm sure there's a reason we have more than five fingers to point to the obvious.

It is that sense being pushed and pulled, fed half-truths, convinced to outsource its insights for outsights.

The sense of I.

The obstacle is that "I" has been given so many names, canvases, masks, and roles that it's hard to see, sense, or feel through it all - what is this experience of "I"?

Perhaps your sense of movement, your sense of thought, your sense of balance, your sense of your body's aliveness will point the way.

Therefore... practice.

Not to be enslaved by the rituals, ideas, models, and cosmologies of others, but to free oneself from them and sense, deeply, wholly, verily, groundedly, lucidly, confidently... I.

What you will yourself to do from that still point is your freedom to intuit.

IN SEARCH OF ...

Jacobo Grinberg, Mexican neurophysiologist:

Look from the origin; to see, not from the manifestation as a phenomenon, but from the very source of all vision.

T.S. Eliot on the still point:

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from
nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say there we have been: but I cannot say where.

Plotinus on the journey (or listen to Ibn Al Arabi's poetic take):

Man’s journey is a journey of the lonely to that which is alone.

THINGS SWING WHEN YOU TRY

P.S. START HERE? A halfway opening ...

Eighteen days ago, a small group began a 36-day practice journey.

Not to improve.
Not to optimize.
But to return - again and again - to the ground of practice.

We are now halfway.

I’m opening five additional places for those who feel this is the right moment to enter.

If you join now:

  • You receive immediate access to the first 18 practices
  • You join us for the remaining 18 days
  • You keep access for one month after completion

This is not 'catching up.'
It’s entering where you are standing, now.

Practice does not require perfect beginning
(that's how you ended never 'doing it').
Only sincere entry.

As this week’s letter touched:

“Do not stop at the door.
Enter.”

If this speaks to your current moment in life, you’re welcome to step in.

Five places only.

→ https://www.oliviergoetgeluck.com/starthere ↗​

Wishing you entry and re-entry,

Olivier

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