"Have you spent time in your confusion? And if so, what have you learned there?"

following quote is from
Cancer and Massage
By Tracy Walton, LMT, MS
"Facing Down the Mystery"
http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms
/mt/column.php?c_id=2802

In oncology massage, we work at the edges of what we know about these things, and this can be unsettling. This not knowing can actually lead to deeper understanding. The realm of not knowing can be a fruitful place to spend time. Sometimes I ask my students, directly, "Have you spent time in your confusion? And if so, what have you learned there?"

The question inspires sacred silence and thought, and it invites a reflective rather than a reflexive answer. The answers I get are many and varied, and they come from the deepest places. Even without a clear answer, sitting with the question gives us good pause.