An Invitation to Live

Training is an invitation

to be with your body
to be with emerging sensations
to be sincere in everything you do
to understand by doing the actual thing
to turn towards oneself, rather than away
to create greater capacity to struggle and not be swayed
and to know the struggle of others — but beyond that — to know the way out and to walk beside them

Training is a statement

“I am here for this”
”I am what I choose to be”
”I will honour what I can control”
”I will surrender to what is beyond my choice”
”I will learn what it means to be worthy of my future vision; my future self”
”I will measure my success not by praise but by the quality of my processes”
”I will flex my agency and my ability to choose, by willingly facing adversity”

Training is to find your way

Not by beating the odds, but becoming victorious even in loss
Not by cheating death, but living life in high resolution
No by perfecting a process, but being perfected in the process
Not by being seen as something, but seeing something in yourself
Not by always progressing physically, but always progressing somehow
Not by worrying about the next thing, but making the best of this thing
Not by wishing you were living another life, but by making this one so good you don’t need to

Training is an invitation
An invitation to live.

Jack White