Curiosity

Whether you arrived here from the book or from somewhere else entirely, let me invite you to do something small before reading further.

How does it feel to be you - a human being alive right now on planet Earth?

What’s actually here, in your body, in this moment?

Whatever you notice is perfect.

Curiosity is a runway for Enjoy Existing. It meets you with a sequence of morning audios, each one a reminder of an idea from the book.

Each audio builds on the next until you take off - until the ideas are integrated into how you experience reality, and you no longer need the tool.

Why a daily practice?

You’ve probably had moments where a window opened. At the end of a book, or after a long conversation with someone who deeply saw you, or in some quiet moment that arrived unannounced. Something was available that you can’t always access.

And then gradually, without you choosing it, the window closed. Life filled back in and that beautiful clarity became a nice memory that faded until you couldn’t quite remember what it felt like anymore.

We learn through spaced repetition. The experiences underlying Enjoy Existing need time to integrate. And not only that, so much of the distractions in our lives are apparently load-bearing - living in clutter, scrolling, constantly running around putting out fires in our own lives or other people’s. These all serve the purpose of keeping us from clarity and being uninhibited, which wasn’t safe for us to have when we were children. The knot unties itself if we give it time and space - and attentive care.

That’s why I built Curiosity.

The word “curiosity” means care. From the Latin cura - the same root as cure, curator, secure. A curator takes care of a collection. A cure is what care produces.

To be curious, etymologically, is to care attentively, and Curiosity helps gently awaken you to your own attentive care.

And there’s something deeper here. You can’t force yourself to be curious. If you’re cut off from what you actually care about, your curiosity gets obscured - you end up performing interest in things, chasing what you’ve been told to want. But when you’re in touch with your own care, your own feelings, your real curiosity shows up on its own.

When that attentive care is turned on your own emotional experience, you realize that there is care underlying all of your feelings. You don’t have emotions that don’t have some foundation in care.

There is a moment here when your emotions cease being a problem and you fall in love with all of yourself, and in falling in love with yourself you also fall in love with the world.

Curiosity is offered freely. Contributions are welcome, but I blind myself to who contributes what to support my giving freely.

Love,
Eric