The Journey

This is from Col. John Boyd's book Creation and Destruction (which is, interestingly enough, a book on warfare - Its subtitle being "The Operational Level of War". All things intertwined and in harmony, in the natural order).

"Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, all taken together, show that we cannot determine the character or nature of a system within itself. Moreover attempts to do so lead to confusion and disorder - mental as well as physical. Point: We need an external environment, or outside world, to define ourselves and maintain organic integrity, otherwise we experience dissolution and disintegration - i.e. we come unglued.

Living systems are open systems; closed systems are nonliving systems. Point: If we don't communicate with the outside world - to gain information for knowledge and understanding as well as matter and energy for sustenance - we die out to become a nondiscerning and uninteresting part of that world."

Emphasis (bolding and italics) is mine.

To find the source (God) we must journey. To journey we must step forward into the unknown and experience it, in success and failure, in triumph and mistakes. To have the journey, we must walk new roads and see new things.
For some, for many, the road to God is well paved, heavily traveled and the journey has a group leader and very good roadmaps in every motel along the way.
But law, natural law (Gods law), is not evident from the teachings of other people to those who's spirits are of the wanderer. The wanderer must come to know God and the natural order, the harmony, of things through personal journey - not the guided tour. And that is about making decisions, making choices, and having control.
We are all part of the infinite, and the events that make up our lives happen according to the infinite, but the roads we choose to walk (perhaps are born to walk) help us to find the right events, the right places to be, to learn what we need to learn to complete this leg of the journey. None of those things are the same for everyone, but the voice in our hearts is our compass for the path.
Somehow, I think that voice in our hearts is not that different than the voice of the infinite.