the view from on high

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hithero unexplained. – Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts are things, they have the power to objectify themselves; thoughts lay hold of Causation and forms real Substance. The Science of Mind, pg 15

The right idea at the right place and time amounts to genius. It doesn’t have to shake the whole world, just one person’s or a few people’s world. You might be a great discoverer who maps unknown territories of land, and there are still a few largely unexplored regions. You might discover some scientific breakthrough, the origin of a celestial body in space or how the human body performs its miraculous expression and self-healing.

Maybe you’ll invent a new device or technique that improves life’s quality through the relief of suffering, or enhances education, artistic expression or personal convenience. You also might be the first to see some trait in humans or other living thing that sheds greater light on who and why we are, and our interrelatedness.

But you may not do any of these things, except to admire someone who does do them. Yet right where you are, a difference is being made, when you notice what’s around you. Every minute there is an opening to blaze some trail where others may journey; to find an explanation that answers a hunger and causes meaning to fall into place, and to mark the patterns that spring into view as they reveal the Mind that animates all things.

Let us interpret “towering genius” to mean one who sees things from a higher vantage-point, as if from a tower rising above the beaten path; you are now in position to achieve extraordinary discoveries, inventions or observation. Any one of us may ascend to this place at any time, by being willing to notice right where we are.

Today, I am filled up as my inward sight takes flight and circles the landscape. Where any boundaries had been before, I now see and endless horizon.