Koan for the day - Drive away so you can find yourself.
If you could do one good thing for yourself today, it would be to get lost. We sleep through our lives, engrossed in meaningless ritual to the point of numb hypnosis by sheer mundanity. However, if you turn left at red light 14 instead of going straight, as you normally do, and continue on strange roads until you are completely sure you do not know where you are, then you may find yourself. Once upon a time, I had an incredibly intimidating paper due as a graduate student. I was at the end of my rope having done none of it with 30 minutes left before class. Other graduate students were comforting and let me know that they would see me in class in just a few minutes, which seemed like a sadistic voyeurism since they knew that I did not have the paper completed. I smiled, rode down the elevator with them, paused and acted like I forgot something. As soon as they walked away, I got my car keys, walked to the parking garage, and drove out of the city. I cannot begin to describe the utter nirvana of seeing that urban scape shrink in my rear view mirror that day.
