What Is “GoalPost”?

We didn't always know what we were naming.

Thirty years ago, when Robert and I first imagined GoalPost, it was simple. We pictured a way to “post” a goal in a digital space, allowing that longing to ripple outward and then return with support. A sacred search engine, of sorts. A way to meet needs more organically, more relationally.

At the time, a goal felt like a discreet desire. A project. Something you moved toward.

But as life moved through us, and as we gave more attention to what truly matters, our understanding changed. The dream of GoalPost changed with us.

We came to see that the world as it exists now is patterned by extraction. That many of the systems meant to help us grow instead pull us away from ourselves.

We also came to see that “who wants” is not so easy to define. The identity that seeks a goal is not always the one who truly benefits when something shifts. There’s a mystery there about desire, about awareness, about what it means to move toward anything at all.

From Seeking to Source

Both Robert and I have been spiritual seekers for most of our lives. Long before we met, we each felt the call inward to understand reality, and to meet the mystery of our own being.

When we came together, this shared commitment gave us confidence in each other. In difficult moments, we didn’t try to fix each other. We turned inward. We trusted the validity of our inner truths. This attunement to the source within us is what sustained us.

Elsewhere on this site, I’ve written about the two perspectives that shaped our path:

• Perspective A, where I see myself as a person in the world, navigating, improving, striving

• Perspective B, where I recognize that all I know is experience. "I" am always emerging, flowing, aware

From Perspective B, I’m not an object moving toward a goal. I am the field in which goals arise. I am the movement, not the mover.

GoalPost as Return

This is where the word “GoalPost” took on new meaning.

We live in a world that pulls our attention outward. Toward improvement. Toward performance. Toward productivity. But what if there is another direction?

A movement inward. A return to the source of awareness. A re-patterning of presence.

What if the goalpost is not a target to reach, but the natural resting point of consciousness?

As we practice returning to this source, especially during difficulty, we build momentum. Over time, the return becomes self-sustaining. It doesn’t require effort. It becomes like breath. Like gravity. It just happens.

To me, this is the real GoalPost: The state where awareness continually flows back to itself. Not because it “should,” but because it remembers how to come home, the natural place of rest.

Entropy and the Pulse of Life

In physics, entropy describes the natural dissipation of energy. The tendency toward disorder. But life counteracts entropy. Life coheres. Life organizes.

I see this reflected in consciousness:

• One movement forgets the source. It fragments, objectifies, disperses.

• The other remembers. It gathers. It returns. It becomes coherent.

Both movements are sacred. One brings diversity. The other brings meaning.

But to live from the return, to feel that sacred pulse of coherence moving through your day, through your choices, through your being, is to participate in the deepest truth I know.

And so, “GoalPost” can become a symbol of coming home. Not of self-improvement, but of self-remembrance. Of resting.

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A Name That Keeps Becoming

This isn’t a final definition. It’s a moment in the spiral. An offering from the center of our experience.

GoalPost is a name we gave to something that continues to evolve, as we evolve.

If something in this speaks to a truth you’ve always sensed, you may already be inside it.

Welcome.

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