When we pause and ask ourselves why we believe something, we’re not trying to dismantle anything. We’re simply turning on a light in a room we’ve been walking through in the dark. Sometimes the furniture is exactly where we thought it was. Sometimes it isn’t. The point isn’t to doubt everything. It’s noticing the difference between what we’ve inherited and what we’ve chosen. That minor act of noticing can shift the whole texture of our thinking. It opens a little space, enough to breathe, to consider, and to see. And in that space, curiosity becomes possible again.
