The Courage to Become
What we believe about ourselves and our potential matters.
The scientific definition of matter is anything that has mass and occupies space. At its most fundamental level, matter is made up of subatomic particles - atoms that contain protons, neutrons, electrons. Which at their deepest level, behave more like energy + probability than solid “stuff”.
Energy is not a “thing” as much as it is capacity for change and the probability describes what could happen, not what is happening yet. Before something is measured, a particle doesn’t have a single position or state. It exists as a wave of possibilities. That means that reality, at its most fundamental level, is not fixed objects but fields of possibility.
Now my question is - how does this relate to being human? If applied to the human experience, that means that at our deepest level exists energy, and probability, and therefore, endless human potential.
It’s the possibility of endless human potential stirs something deep within us. And when acknowledged, can yield miracles.
Finding and claiming our hunger is essential. Until we do this, we are not curious and unconsciously choose to stay in our current reality and the limitations of that reality. But if we are lucky, we are exposed to a question or thought that eats us alive. The kind of question that disrupts our comfort and demands we face our blocks, resistance, and frustrations.
These are the kind of questions that initiate us and open us up to the possibility of an entirely different reality, not the one we’ve always known. The kind of questions that lead, eventually, to a consciousness orgasm, when fully lived.
We may try to answer all of the questions and anticipate every outcome before we’ve truly lived something. And we forget that by living into something, we won’t be the same person on the other side. So we probably won’t have the same problems or questions. They’ll have gotten answered along the way or become irrelevant if they were originally based in fear.
We may expose and reveal more of our power through some of our experiences and find ourselves contracting, or going back to what’s familiar after. Even if it felt really good to touch our power.
It is normal to have doubts, but if we are smart, we begin turning doubts into prayers and opportunities to prove how loved and blessed we truly are.
Written by Amanda Crocitto
To the man who shows me what it means to walk in God’s love and to throw your heart into this world, everyday.
Arizona, Jan 2026