There’s this period when I can start to sense a new version of myself on the periphery of my consciousness. It’s unclear, but it’s there. The more work I do, the more I stay with myself and let myself fall without grabbing for old ways, the clearer the outline of that new self becomes, and then it starts to become colored in, and then I start to feel that it’s real. I start to feel myself becoming. And at some point, that new self becomes more real to me than the old self behind me.

