The Horizon

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A SHORT STORY

We spend much of Utopian Hotline guiding people toward a question of an imagined future.

As a participant alongside the audience in that meditation, I’m often struck by the images that arise when I imagine my own perfect future.

It feels like a horizon, when I think of it.

The edge between what we can see and what we can’t.

This is one of the reasons I purposely bought my apartment—to have a view of a far horizon. Because one of the powerful things about a horizon is that, by definition, there’s something beyond it that you cannot yet perceive.

The ability to walk toward what looks like a door that, eventually—as the Zen tradition says—is no door at all.

And to lean against it until it falls open.

In the Zen tradition, much like what we enact in Utopian Hotline, we are invited to pay attention—to attend deeply to the silence—in order to detect that horizon above and beyond.

It’s in that quiet noticing that the future begins to speak.

What horizon is calling you today?

A POEM

“The Blessing of the Morning Light” by David Whyte

The blessing of the morning light to you,
may it find you even in your invisible
appearances, may you be seen to have risen
from some other place you know and have known
in the darkness and that that carries all you need.

May you see what is hidden in you
as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter,
may what is hidden in you become your gift to give:
may you hold that shadow to the light
and the silence of that shelter to the word of the light,
may you join every previous disappearance
with this new appearance, this new morning,
this being seen again, new and newly alive.

Grateful,

Michael