October 26, 2026

Make Today Your Center

The universe has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere.

Nicholas of Cusa was a fifteenth-century cardinal and philosopher who wrote On Learned Ignorance in 1440, more than a century before Copernicus dared to move the earth from the center of the cosmos. Medieval thinkers assumed the universe had one fixed middle point and one fixed outer boundary; Cusa broke with that picture, arguing that since only God is truly infinite, the created universe has no single privileged center. If every place can be regarded as a center, then no spot is more sanctioned to start from than any other. That is worth remembering on a morning when the day ahead still feels like it needs the right conditions before it can begin.