The idea we are alone

This photo above (by Renan Ozturk, for the New Yorker Magazine) popped up in my Instagram feed yesterday and prompted two thoughts:

1. Boy, am I scared of heights

2. We are never alone

The idea we can ever be truly alone, I believe, is false.

In the case of the photo, the climber Alex Honnold has obvious fellowship with the photographer but more importantly, with as yet unknown parts of himself.

Call it intuition, subconscious or your gremlin(s) -- we walk or climb the earth as part of a fellowship including the great conversations inside us that we largely do not control. And it is from these multitudes which spring ideas. "No art comes from the conscious mind," said David Mamet. We have but to explore inward.

Or out. I also believe each of us has access to a higher power. Like the world around us (or perhaps yours is the world around you), this power is a conversation waiting to happen; ideas waiting to be considered. Participate or don't as you see fit.

Then knowing you are never alone, what will you accomplish?