* A conversation you overhear in a restaurant that seems as though it was spoken directly to you;
* Where there’s friction in your life, for, as in nature, that’s where changes are taking place, or trying to. Where, for example, your words and deeds don’t match, where you fight with others and what you’re after, where longing rubs against security;
* Song lyrics you can’t get out of your head;
* Instructions that arise unbidden from the silence of meditation;
* An ultimatum your partner gives you: either go to couples-counseling or the relationship is over;
* What you would preach about if they gave you an hour of prime-time;
* What decisions need to be made in your life right now; what issues are hanging in mid-air waiting for resolution.
What we’re after in reading all these signs is the power inherent in simply naming things, for what we cannot name is lost to us, and what we can name is coaxed into life. The danger, of course, is over-explanation, over-interpretation, which, as the playwright Eugene Ionesco once said, “separates us from astonishment.”
Calls are essentially questions. They aren’t questions you necessarily need to answer outright, but questions to respond to, expose yourself to, kneel before. You don’t want an answer you can put in a box and set on a shelf. You want a question that will become a chariot to carry you across the breadth of your life, a question that will offer you a lifetime of pondering, that will lead you toward what you need to know for your integrity, draw to you what you need for your journey, and help you understand what it means to burst at the seams.
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