Even though your body is always bound to one place, your mind is a relentless voyager. The mind has a magnificent, creative restlessness that always brings it on a new journey. Even in the most sensible and controlled lives there is often an undertow of longing that would deliver them to distant shores. There is something within you that is not content to remain fixed within any one frame. You cannot immunize yourself against your longing. You love to reach beyond, to discover something new. Knowing calls you out of yourself. Discovery delights the heart. This is the natural joy of childhood and the earned joy of the artist. The child and the artist are pilgrims of discovery. When you limit your life to one frame of thinking, you close out the mystery. When you fence in desires of your heart within fixed walls of belief, morality and convention, you dishonour the call to discovery. You create grey fields of 'quiet desperation.' Discovery in the nature of the soul. there is some wildness of divinity in us calling us to live everything. John O'Donahue, External Echoes, Exploring our Hunger to Belong
Our inherent longing to know has the capacity to take us on journeys far beyond our daily living and can awaken sleeping giants in our soul. It is both exciting and frightening.......as it can enrich the ordinary day into one of discovery. We need not physically travel far to expand our inner world.......a place where the unfolding of a mystery can lead to taking steps once thought to be past any reachable horizon. Exploration leads to discovering gems that perhaps one never thought even existed.
We are all miners of the soul.................if we want to be.
1 comment:
It wasn't that it was too heavy or anything at all like that - just read it and absorbed without commenting...
I have this book sitting waiting to be read but have too many balls juggling to start it.
children and artists...present in us all, the key to living fully perhaps ~ I like that idea
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