Travel is one of the best ways to learn about different cultures and lifestyles. If you cannot physically travel to distant lands, reading, the internet, and our imaginations can also expose us to new worlds and new ideas, both good and bad. Whether traveling physically or in your imagination there must be a vehicle of transportation. Our thoughts are powerful transporters that have the capacity to take us places we have never been, first in our imaginations and often in reality.
Through human ingenuity we have thousands of satellites above the earth giving us worldwide connectivity in seconds. Our space programs around the world are constantly discovering things about the universe that we did not know. Whether the vehicle is light, sound, wind, water, electrical, biological, nuclear, or digital, our vehicles of communication and transportation have taken us far beyond the world of the generations before us. Yet, throughout the generations before us we were warned that it is possible to travel the world, gain knowledge in many domains, and yet lose ourselves, our minds, and our souls in the process.
Just as the telescope must receive light from the stars in order to see it, in every area of knowledge we must receive something from the target and destination of our inquiry in order to know anything. If we want to discover and rediscover ourselves, we must use the vehicle of our thoughts and our spirits. Through the vehicles of thought and industry we can connect with the physical world, but through the vehicles of our spiritual industry we can connect with God. If we are disciplined for success in the broadest sense, we recognize the importance of all our vehicles, and that just as the source of energy for our physical well-being comes from beyond and within the earth, the source of our spiritual well-being also comes from beyond us and within us.