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O.K. I've decided on the name for the this blog... "The Undiscovered Blog".

For one thing, it is actually fairly undiscovered. I haven't told many people about it or linked it up with much yet.

Also, I like the reference to the "undiscovered country" in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Being a bit melancholy, brooding and pensive sometimes ... I can identify with Hamlet.

In the famous "to be or not to be" speech, the bard spoke of the "the undiscovered country"... the place we go when we cease to “suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". It's when we choose to follow our destiny, and live (even through pain or death) in the name of action instead of melancholy, or delay.

Action does always involve risk, and moving towards a kind of end to our ordinary existence (to the point of having “shuffled off this mortal coil” or toil - well, at least in some respects anyway).

Does action also connect us with something eternal in a way? Could we call that connecting with a divine aim - a true inner aim which exists in a cosmic context?

Is it when we dare to be our true selves - when we dare to be genuine? Is it when we act in a way that is consistent with all our talents and abilities, with all the DNA stored up inside us, and in a way that is consistent with our experience and learning?

I think it's a lot about all of that. Even more importantly though, I think it's also (and even primarily) about connecting with a deeper wisdom within us - one that has little to do with our egos. It's much deeper than our consciousness or even our “conscience”. (Those "make cowards of us all"!)

It's all about connecting with a deep intuitive wisdom that will move us along the most ideal path. Some might call that our "true self" – unique and genuine but also rooted in more universal realities.

Coming from a kind of Universal Catholic spirituality, I would call this this connecting with the Holy Spirit - a power which will subtly move us in the right direction if we let it.

Is it all about "going with the flow" intuitively instead of resisting it or delaying? I tend to think so. Ultimately, Hamlet had to “go with the flow”…

Anyway, positive action certainly involves venturing into undiscovered territory in order to really make any progress. So … this venturing is a good thing, I think.

It isn’t good to be too afraid of that which is unknown or undiscovered if we are to discover ourselves and our most genuine paths finally.

So ... this then ... will be an effort in that direction ... a venturing into thoughts or feelings or actions that are part of an undiscovered landscape... via ..."the undiscovered blog".