"the undiscovered country"

"The Future is an undiscovered country" was a corruption of the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet where he reflects on Death and beyond. This form of the quote was used in the Star Trek Movie An Undiscovered Country.

The lines are taken from the soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Act III, Scene I.....

"To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase.

...But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn  
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have 
Than fly to others that we know not of?

 Try here for the full scene http://www.bartleby.com/46/2/31.html

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The lesson

which life repeats and constantly enforces is

"Look under foot."

You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Do not despise your own place and hour.

Every place is under the stars,

every place is the centre of the world. 

John Burroughs.