Replacing judgment with curiosity, understanding that every person is a private world.
The most transformative of these qualities is being "wide open." In a world that prizes "closure" and "certainty," remaining open is a radical act of vulnerability. mature old wide open
The Wide Open: A Meditation on Maturity and the Architecture of Time It is the human equivalent of a cathedral
To be "mature, old, and wide open" is to inhabit a specific, weathered state of grace. It is the human equivalent of a cathedral with its doors removed—a structure that has survived the initial fires of construction and the subsequent storms of history, only to realize that its greatest strength lies in its lack of boundaries. While youth is often a period of fortification—building walls, defining "self" against "other," and securing the perimeter—true maturity is the slow, deliberate process of dismantling those very defenses to let the world flow through. defining "self" against "other