"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success." Henry David Thoreau
Along with the quote above, I offer you a quote below which at first reading seems complex, in the way astrophysics is complex. They are quotes I read last Sunday, as a part of the talk, "Walking the Edge of New". I decided to post them as one way to lift our vision to a larger frame beyond the Pandemic, just as a meditation exercise. Because of the many stops and starts that have happened with the world's attempt to overcome the Pandemic, it can be difficult at this point to gather up the stamina and enthusiasm to stay focused and optimistic about the necessity of continuing masks (and even double masks here in California) along with social distancing as we again face changes in health advisories and do what is needed to insure vaccinations. Stretching our awareness beyond the focus of our immediate situation paradoxically gives our minds a much needed break from the continued rehearsal of our situation and offers new perspective on the amazing scale of creation. This particular quote below is a reminder that the unknown has always been and continues to be an unconquerable aspect of life. Still, we do discover, uncover, and adapt to our acquired knowledge. The search furthers the creativity of life.
"The Universe has many edges: the edge of transparency, the edge of stars and galaxies, the edge of neutral atoms, and the edge of our cosmic horizon from the Big Bang itself. We can look as far away as our telescopes can take us, but there will always be a fundamental limit. Even if space itself is infinite, the amount of time that’s passed since the hot Big Bang is not. No matter how long we wait, there will always be an “edge” that we’ll never be able to see past."