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Courage in the Unknown: Doing Hard Things While Afraid

There is a strange power in choosing to act while fear is present. Fear, after all, is a natural and unavoidable part of life. It signals risk, potential pain, and uncertainty, but it does not have to be a stop sign. One of the most profound realizations I have had in life is that the moments that shape us most often come not from certainty or careful planning, but from stepping into situations we cannot fully control, into challenges that loom large and intimidating, and doing so with our […]

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Embracing the Unknown: A Reading in Bardo by Pema Chödrön

Stepping onto the English shore after the Norway voyage, I thought of Prema Chödrön’s words in Embracing the Unknown. She writes that the uncertainty of transition is not to be feared, but welcomed — for it is in that open space, the Bardo, that transformation begins.

Tibetan teaching describes Bardo as the state between death and rebirth, but its wisdom stretches far beyond.

Embracing the Unknown by Pema Chödrön

The Tibetans describe six bardos: the bardo of birth and living, the bardo of meditation, the bardo of dreaming, the bardo of dying, the bardo of the luminous reality (after death), and the bardo of becoming (rebirth). But the spirit of Bardo reaches beyond doctrine: it is the recognition that life is made of thresholds.

Travel itself is a kind of Bardo: leaving behind the familiar, moving into landscapes that are not yet our own. Reading, too, places us in bardos. We open a book and step into pages suspended between what we know and what we are about to discover.

Norway was more than a journey across seas; it was a passage through time and story. Mountains folded into mist, fjords opening like pages of an old manuscript, legends whispering through villages — each moment asked me to inhabit the in-between. Now, at the voyage’s end, I see that endings are never simple closures. They are beginnings in disguise, inviting us to carry their presence into whatever comes next.

Like a beloved book, the Norway adventure has ended on the page, but it continues within me. And so I return to the Bardo, to the in-between, not with fear but with gratitude — ready to read what waits beyond the threshold.

I wonder, dear reader, what books or journeys have brought you into your own bardos — those luminous pauses where endings become beginnings? Perhaps you, too, carry within you a story that has not yet finished speaking.

Rebecca

Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That’s when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

Prema Chödrön

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