“When the moon is perfectly full, you say, ‘I’ve seen the whole moon.’ But there is a whole half of the moon you haven’t seen. Most things are like that.
“Life is walking—with one foot after another. There are many different meanings that unfold over the course of the journey. But there are no static meanings, no final meanings. The meaning is never ‘over.’
“Your understanding of your life isn’t necessarily right or wrong; it just isn’t over. You keep learning…keep seeing.
“The animals know this. But your human brains override that knowledge.
“Human beings don’t think of themselves as animals, and consequently don’t think like animals. Nevertheless, they are. Animals carry within them the felt sense of a greater, continuously-unfolding reality which as humans you cannot know.
“But there is something you can learn to DO and TRUST and EXPERIENCE that, by definition, you are never going to rationally KNOW. And that is to remain open to new and different ways that are going to reveal themselves as you go forward on your way.
“All human problems have as their root the impulse to make static something that is moving.”
