{"id":4082,"date":"2015-07-04T23:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2015-07-04T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T03:50:35","slug":"to-infinity-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4082","title":{"rendered":"To infinity. And beyond."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"skybig\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tonight, I was thinking about the planets.\u00a0 From Mercury all\u00a0 the way to the now defunct Pluto.\u00a0 I like to wonder about things.\u00a0 Anything.\u00a0 And sometimes I wish I knew things about how life works.\u00a0 Our living matter.\u00a0 Our energy matter.<\/p>\n

Yet, we cannot ever really know these things.\u00a0 No matter how much knowledge we acquire\u2026 be it self-awareness\u2026 or otherwise\u2026.. I think we should always keep sight of our smallness.\u00a0 We should remember just how BIG the Universe Is.\u00a0\u00a0 How completely infinite our Universe is.<\/p>\n

I think when we admit that we really can not know it all\u2026..\u00a0 we find the possibility of new possibilities.\u00a0 Like… we can begin to open our hearts\u00a0 and learn about our Inner-Self.\u00a0\u00a0 And it is this profound Inner-Self that knows the\u00a0 truth about things.\u00a0 What direction to take.\u00a0 On any given day.\u00a0 It can guide us in doing the next right thing.<\/p>\n

Introspection is a good thing at these times.\u00a0 And so is Devotion.<\/p>\n

In that way\u2026. I mean this.\u00a0 Devotion can be a lot of things.\u00a0 But when we realize how small we are, in the grander scheme of things\u2026. we can have a realization that there might be something which is higher and bigger and greater than our individual selves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Than us.<\/p>\n

And\u2026.. even if we cannot comprehend what this may be, we can acknowledge that something greater than our egos exists.<\/p>\n

There is a huge difference between the ego\/personality part of us\u2026. and the \u201cenergy\u201d part of us\u2026. that is the light within us.\u00a0 The part that knows clarity.<\/p>\n

Perhaps\u2026 we can use meditation, or prayer\u2026. or whatever you want to call it\u2026.\u00a0 to make contact with this\u00a0 \u2018Energy Within Ourselves\u201d\u2026.. with our \u201dSoul Selves\u201d ( As well as our Universal Connection.\u00a0 Because even though we are small\u2026 we truly ARE connected in a great big way.)<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 I say these things, and I hope they are true.\u00a0 I am constantly searching for new things to learn. New ways to see.\u00a0 Yet it is SO difficult to see for myself.\u00a0 To know what path to take, and how to do it.<\/p>\n

I know it is there\u2026 I just can\u2019t seem to find that ultimate connection. Like so many others have.\u00a0 In this way, I say these things\u2026 in hopes that I will find clarity\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 and continue to grow and learn, in my human being self.<\/p>\n

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.<\/strong><\/em>
\n– Bertrand Russell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.<\/strong><\/em>
\n– Bertrand Russell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.<\/strong><\/em>
\n– Bertrand Russell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight, I was thinking about the planets.\u00a0 From Mercury all\u00a0 the way to the now defunct Pluto.\u00a0 I like to wonder about things.\u00a0 Anything.\u00a0 And sometimes I wish I knew things about how life works.\u00a0 Our living matter.\u00a0 Our energy matter. Yet, we cannot ever really know these things.\u00a0 No matter how much knowledge we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}