Permission to wander

A couple of posts ago I wrote about a talk I had heard by Dan J. Siegel, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, in which he talked about the human brain being wired for certainty. He said something very interesting following that and quoted an installation in the atrium of the Brooklyn Public Library by Kameelah Janan Rasheed, American writer, educator and artist, which had on it the words 'having abandoned the flimsy fantasy of certainty, I decided to wander'. Dan Siegel said that most of us don't wander. I would add to this that the ego doesn't want us to wander because the ego gets it's strength from certainty. The ego is invested in us continuing to see ourselves in a certain way, to think of ourselves in a certain way, because that certain way is it - the ego itself. So it is only with curiosity and determination to wander that we manage to do so, that we will manage to see beyond the filter of our ego or the other side of its curtain as it were. So we need to understand what our ego is telling us when it rails against something - that it is really railing against uncertainty. And then we have to consciously give ourselves permission to wander. Because in the wandering who knows what we might find? Perhaps we will find that we are not who we think we are. What then?