Trying To Get Lost

"It is not until we are lost that we truly begin to understand ourselves."
Henry David Thoreau

So then the question becomes how exactly am I to become lost to myself?  Think about that one a moment!  Take your car keys and try to loose them.  Try your hardest to loose them.  Concentrate upon this task with all your might.  The harder that you try to loose the keys the more tightly imprinted into your brain is their location, and you fail in trying to loose the keys.

Such is the case in trying to loose oneself I think.  The more that we focus on ourselves the harder it is to loose ourselves and in the process of finding the way back out of the wilderness discover our true identity.  The more that we focus on getting ourselves lost, the more that we are focusing on who and what and where we are at the moment.  The now keeping us completely distracted from the time and place where we have the opportunity to learn what it is that we can be.

For me, I know just fine what I am right now.  It's what I could be that intrigues me.