There’s a passage in one of my favorite children’s books, “Through the Looking Glass” which reads:

“There’s no use in trying,” she said. “one *can’t* believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as SIX impossible things before breakfast.”

I think we’ve all struggled, just as Alice did, peeking through that ‘looking glass.’ At times the world, once so crystal clear – seems warped and clouded from view.

But, I think it’s good to think of those seemingly impossible things – as, it helps us to find our way through.

The impossible, though daunting, reminds us that not everything is written in stone. That we are the manifestation of all that we believe, in combination with all that we *do*.

And likewise it offers the magnificent opportunity to move past those impossible ‘truths.’

Just as our beliefs may expand our world, so too, can they cloud our view.

As Shunryu Suzuki once said, “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.”

Sometimes it’s believing those impossible things that helps to clear our way.

The trick is, to recognize and then to clear all those barriers to “I can’t do that.”