The Version of You Who Doesn’t Ask That Anymore

My entire life I’ve loved this quote from Albert Einstein: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

I think it was the first quote I put on my Facebook profile when Facebook first came out. It’s always been a quote I really love, but I don’t think I ever truly understood it until recently. I had recently gone through almost a year of painfully asking myself some of the same questions over and over again.

I always thought Einstein meant you had to change your perspective on something and look at it in different way because you can’t have the same mindset to solve a problem as you did to create the problem. It never occurred to me that what it really means is so much more than changing your perspective.

You don’t just need a better answer to the same question or problem you’ve been trying to solve—you need to become the version of you who no longer asks the question.

The version of you who doesn’t need that answer. The version of you who doesn’t have that problem to solve. The version of you who is whole now. The version of you who orbits yourself. The version of you who knows the right seat for you is at the right table at the right time. The version of you who walks away from what is not aligned for you.

Don’t keep rearranging the furniture in the same old room.
Leave the room entirely.
Upgrade the level of consciousness.
Become the you who lives in the reality where the question doesn’t even apply anymore.

Because real transformation doesn’t give you a better answer.
It makes the old question irrelevant.

And that’s the only question to ask now. What must I say, do or be to step into the version of myself that would make my question irrelevant?