The Invisible World Is All Around Us

That which we can see is the visible; that which we cannot see is the invisible. Within us and around us there is an invisible world; this is where each of us comes from. Your relationship to the invisible influences so much of your life. When you cross over from the invisible into this physical world, you bring with you a sense of belonging to the invisible that you can never lose or finally cancel. When you cross this threshold, you come into the gravity that rules the visible world. Space and time now set the frame for most of your experience. Once you come here, you can never stop experiencing things. Every second of your life something new is going on: you notice a tree, remember a phrase someone said last night, daydream of holidays or wonder what is making you so uneasy. Everything that you experience is now framed in a very definite way. All your experience happens someplace and always at a definite time. As you live here you build a new section of your biography each day. You trust what you see and know what you hear. You know your real life is happening here. Yet your longing for the invisible is never stilled. There is always some magnet that draws your eyes to the horizon or invites you to explore behind things and seek out the concealed depths. You know that the real nature of things is hidden deep within them. When you enter the world, you come to live on the threshold between the visible and the invisible. This tension infuses your life with longing. Now you belong fully neither to the visible nor to the invisible. This is precisely what kindles and rekindles all your longing and your hunger to belong. You are both artist and pilgrim of the threshold.