The Grammar of Growth

Growth, not toward the ultimate goal at the expense of the present. Growth, not away from something as a fearful recoiling. Growth, not as a sign of success...

but as the natural act of expanding, of filling the world with living. With being and being and being. I am, therefore I am always becoming.

~ U. Schaffer

And so, to grow is to release the hunger for a different self. It is to turn the gaze not toward the distant peak, nor over the shoulder at the shadow, but to the very ground of your feet and the air in your lungs. To inhabit the territory of your own existence so fully that your boundaries must soften, must extend—not because they are forced, but because life, in its sheer abundance, cannot be contained. You do not reach for becoming; you simply cease to resist it. You are a space that life fills, a note that sustains and deepens. To be utterly present is to participate in the universe's only verb: expanding. Being does not seek growth; being is growth, witnessed.