In a word, one ought to turn the most extreme possibility within oneself into the measure for one’s life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.*
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is the ongoing process of self-making. It is that which continuously changes itself in order to continue being itself.**
David Rome

Rainer Maria Rilke’s “extreme possibility” sounds
very much like Jean Houston’s “quantum partners” and
Alex McManus’ MaximumU;
Once we know what we are capable of it’s difficult to unknow:
We do not just dwell in the universe –
the universe dwells inside us.^ –
Indeed it seems that we lose ourselves if we do not
continue to change, not only that, but we are making
life harder for ourselves:
It is easier to try to be better than you are
than to be who you are.^^

To be better is more than to be increasingly productive,
Although I believe we shall be, but it’s about
exploring possibilities of being and connecting,
For ourselves and with others – “daring speculation,” as
Albert Einstein named the process:
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further
and not accumulation of facts.^

As for science, so for us:
After all, we are science;
We may not want to see our lives as being in
pencil, because we are still rubbing out and
redrawing.

*Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Life;
**David Rome’s Your Body Knows the Answer;
^Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us;
^^Marion Woodman, from Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals.