Mature Old Wide Open -

Replacing judgment with curiosity, understanding that every person is a private world.

The Wide Open: A Meditation on Maturity and the Architecture of Time mature old wide open

Accepting that we are small players in a vast, unknowable cosmos. To be mature is to have the strength

The intersection of these three states creates a powerful way of existing. To be mature is to have the strength to stand; to be old is to have the wisdom to sit still; and to be wide open is to have the courage to let the universe in. It is a state of "dynamic passivity"—not a weakness, but a profound readiness. Like a vast plain under a setting sun, the mature, old, and wide open life is one of immense space, quiet light, and an invitation to everything that is yet to come. Replacing judgment with curiosity