someone once compared the long journey to life and growth to that of trapeze artists...their leap in faith mirror the same movements into the unknown, open to what it may bring while confident they have done enough work to know the risks and rewards that await them...
"One of the difficulties in moving out of the familiar is the temptation to close off the full drama of change before it ripens. The sense of being bereft of all that is familiar is a vacuum which threatens to suck up everything within its reach.
What is hard to appreciate, when terror shapes a catastrophic gap, is that this blankness can be a fertile void. The fertile void is an existential metaphor for giving up the familiar supports of the present and trusting the momentum of life to produce new opportunities and vistas.
The arcobat who swings from one trapeze to the next knows just when he must let go. He gauges his release exquisitely and for a moment, he has nothing going for him but his own momentum. Our hearts follow his arc and we love him for risking the unsupported moment...Erving & Miriam Polster
Gestalt Therapy Integrated
