One of the difficulties in moving out of the familiar is the temptation to close off the full drama of change before it ripens. This sense of being bereft of all that is familiar is a vacuum which threatens to suck up everything within it's 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 the existential metaphor for giving up the familiar supports of the present and trusting the momentum of life to produce new opportunities and vista's.
The acrobat 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 and Miriam Polster
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