He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
—Albert Einstein}
Strive for Wholeness
E
ver hear the saying “Get the big picture”? It amazes me when
people can leave out or ignore big pieces in a picture or pre-
tend nothing is missing. It’s like ordering a pizza and getting a pie
with a few slices already removed—and still thinking it’s a whole
pie. Wouldn’t you wonder where those pieces went?
I’ve encountered people who don’t wonder about anything.
Sometimes I wonder if they are in shock or something. Maybe
they’re just afraid to strive for the big picture or the whole pie, or
maybe they don’t think they’re worth the whole pie. Whatever it
is, don’t let yourself fall into any of those categories. Don’t ever
sell yourself short. That’s bad business on every level, even the
metaphysical.
If striving for wholeness means diminishing your competition,
then your competition wasn’t much to begin with. A lot of life is
about survival of the fittest and adaptation, as Darwin pointed out.
It’s not all there is, but it’s an indication of how the world has
evolved in historical terms. We’ve seen many empires come and