January
11, 2004
Scientists
tell us that we use only a small portion of our brains' capacity, about one
tenth of it. What is this capacity? How can we access it? What does it mean?
Today I think that this untapped capacity is
our potential in store, individually and as a species, for greater wisdom,
accomplishment and love. It is the key
to being the most effective cells in the body of Life we can be. It is, for example, the key to understanding
miracles, which are well described as simply the operation of nature beyond our
ken.
We will not, by definition, access this
capacity through our routine activities.
I believe we can access this capacity, by degrees, through prayer,
through seeking God -- which very much includes seeking that of God in each
other -- and through embracing new ways of looking at Life, even new ways of
living.
To me, this reservoir of cerebral capacity
means that we have barely begun to know our powers. It means we have the rest of our lives to
explore and expand our boundaries, to the service of others and to our own joy
in learning.
