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Make The World Thrive
When you enter the world, you come to live on the threshold between the visible and the invisible. This tension infuses your life with longing. Now you belong fully neither to the visible nor to the invisible. This is precisely what kindles and rekindles your longing and your hunger to belong. You are both artist and pilgrim of the threshold. — John O’Donohue
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“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
— World-renowned physicist Max Planck
Poets and scientists use different language to describe similar visions. The emphasis is different too. The poet is looking at the soul’s reasons for earthly existence and the scientist keeps looking at how it happens, stopping short of why we exist. I find the scientific perspective interesting but my mind is attracted to follow-on ideas of what it’s all about. I want to know why we live. What does it accomplish to live in a body…
