The power of ideas.

“Nobody,” Sage reads, “who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.”

This excerpt from The Storyteller, a work of fiction by author Jodie Picoult, brings us face-to-face with one of the great discoveries of living life and human potential. Ideas.

Today I am meditating on the the power of ideas.

Every day a million ideas float past, like butterflies, not necessarily bound anyplace, rather just circulating, just being.

These ideas often go unnoticed because of our inner clamor, our preoccupation with other matters that engage our attention.

And yet, in these fluttering, unassuming, wisps of singular thought is the power to change our perceptions of everything; and to combine two or more is to supercharge our potential.

What great ideas have we failed to notice and combine today?

This book is full of confronting ideas, it's a great story, it's a slice of history, it's an examination of humanity - and inhumanity.