
Each of us is a voyager. This is what the universe invites us to be in our lives and relationships, because the universe keeps changing, unfolding, evolving.*
Philip Newell
When we get to where we’re going … perhaps we should stop. Unless the going was the point.**
Seth Godin
Some are aware of the journey the universe is taking them on
and are exhilarated, others are unaware,
The movement through space and seasons being too subtle for them to notice;
As cognisant expressions of the cosmos,
It must take a lot of effort to remain motionless and
emotionless –
Better to put all that effort to the service of
openness:
I believe that the capacity for awe
also includes an openness to the world.
Openness in turn, requires a certain humility.
To be open to the world is to recognise
there are things in the world that we do not yet possess,
things bigger than us,
things that we do not yet understand
(or perhaps may never understand).^
*Philip Newell’s Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul;
**Seth Godin’s blog: When we get to where we’re going;
^Alan Lightman’s The Transcendent Brain.