‘A new “Law” puts all other laws and criteria into an utterly new perspective.’*

“When the universe is full of wonder, all is as it should be.”**

Yesterday was an exciting one for Planet Earth.

The discovery of gravitational waves, confirming Albert Einstein’s one hundred year old theory, provides us with a new way of seeing our universe – the thing that most caught my attention from the news coming out of the LIGO Collaboration.

This morning, on a live radio phone-in, I listened to some of the questions being posed to scientists about the implications of this discovery.  One caller,  describing himself as being from the wilds of Cheshire, asked what has any of to do with the average man.

Everything, nothing, and everything in between depending on how close we get.

‘It takes a different mind to live in such a different time and space.’*

Nothing changes us unless we want it to, whether the new ways of seeing come from from science or personal development or the story of someone’s life.

Yesterday’s discovery won’t automatically make the world and everyone in it better.  If it could, it would have already done so.  The things which mark our movement through history and time are still argued and fought over, stolen and used to hurt one another and our planet.

‘I had come to understand one critical fact about my happiness project: I couldn’t change anyone else.’**

But if we are prepared to open our eyes and see more, we can change ourselves,  and we can send out our own gravitational waves to others.   They then can decide what they want to do with these:

‘The intrinsic self is not a genetically programmed entity that simply unfolds with time … . It is instead a set of potentials, interests, and capabilities that interact with the world, each affecting the other.’^

No matter what we see and know, our greatest task is to live in an expanding world and universe with imaginative and innovative expressions of love and joy and peace and kindness and goodness and gentleness.

‘Each day your soul weaves the opaque and ancient depth of you with the actual freshness of your present experience.’*^

(*From Richard Rohr’s The Naked Now.)
(**From the Cirque de Soleil’s Varekai.)
(^From Gretchen Ruben’s The Happiness Project.)
(^^From Edward Deci’s Why We Do What We Do.)
(*^From John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes.)