When you stop making excuses and start living

There is a moment in a person's development that cannot be faked. It doesn't come from an idea, nor from the desire to be “better,” nor from the need to resolve yet another layer of ourselves. It comes quietly, yet very concretely—like a shift in focus from the inside out. As if something within you stops revolving around internal analyses, relationships, others' reactions, and invisible permissions, and begins to direct itself toward creating, acting, and completing something in the physical world.