Infinite possibilities in infinite combinations

I heard my father saying to me – two or three times, especially when I was a teenager, “For a Costantino” (our family name) “nothing is impossible.”

I remember a feeling of excitement, like the presence of a winged goddess lifting me up, and yet, something also felt strange in my guts.

I took those words quite literally, so I ended up taking lots of chances in my life, looking for challenges and provoking many of them.

The strange feeling in my guts persisted until I finally found out what it was. For a Costantino… I realized that it was not about me, but me as a representative of a specific family, a certain clan… and seeing that really pissed me off. I could feel the double message – empowering and disempowering at the same time.

I have proven to myself (and to you, Dad…) that it has been mostly true: whenever I get myself fully into something, nothing is impossible.

Some time ago I also came to realize that I no longer had to prove anything, neither to myself nor to anybody else. What a liberating feeling!

Now it’s also clear to me that the sentence “nothing is impossible” is true for everybody and at every moment, because this now, which is unfolding right now, is pure and complete potentiality, expressing itself through infinite possibilities in infinite combinations.

I am one of them, you are one of them, we are all of them right now.

No matter what our name and form might be.

Thanks, Dad.

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Avikal

Avikal Costantino is founder and director of the Integral Being Institute, active in Europe, Asia and Australia and is the author of several books, e.g. Who is in? Beyond Self-image. He lives in Sydney, Australia. avikal.co – satori-retreat.net