Monday, April 14, 2008

What the Self Study means to me...

As Tennyson's poem Ulysses states...

I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.


I continue to be molded and shaped by the relationships I form around the world. The Self Study process is part of this lifelong journey and part of the shaping and molding that continues in my life.