It's not limited to techies. This is something each of us experience in ourselves, our own sacred journey. I've talked with a lot of people -- many, non-techie

It's not limited to techies. This is something each of us experience in ourselves, our own sacred journey. I've talked with a lot of people -- many, non-techies -- that, with that first flowering, all tread through the same paths. They may express it differently. I did the same. It feels original because it is original, even though it has been said in other ways many times. No book, no art, no music can take you on this journey. It's not code you copy and execute in some other person's brain. Yet once you see it, you start seeing it everywhere, as people imperfectly try to express the ineffable. It seems like reinventing, but eventually, it isn't. You cannot experience unconditional love without being in the present moment; when you start thinking in terms of reinventing things in the past or the future, you are no longer present. How can it possibly be anything other than original when it can only unfold in the here and now? A different teacher, from a very different path (martial arts) said, "endless variations, never surprising."