While the knowing of the mind is limited by frontiers, the soul has no frontiers.*
John O’Donohue

Whatever powers we have in the world, in our work, in our powers of leadership, in our imaginations, they are the gifts of a much larger world than one when have made for ourselves. They are only part of deeper, inescapable, ancestral imaginings which we join and which inform our ever day and to which, every next day, we introduce our own children. More truthfully, perhaps, we let our children go out into the world and find if for themselves, and report it back to us as if new … .**
David Whyte

There is an ordinary world –
Sport, politics, shopping, comedy shows, food, jobs … –
And there is a special world –
Meaning, myths, inexplicable things, presence, alchemy, connection … .

Dot dot dot … .

Both lists are wonderfully long –
passing through my life.**

More than ever, I know,
I would not want to live in one without the other.

We don’t have to.

The child takes in the world as if it were food. 
And his world nourishes or starves him. 
Nothing escapes his thirst;
secrets are impossible. 
He identifies with his surroundings,
and they live within him unconsciously.^

*John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty;
**David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
^M. C. Richards’ Centering.