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The Unknown pulls us towards new life experiences, new knowledge, new human relationships – a renewed and revitalized life. The Unknown always calls us, and we can respond either by ignoring or acknowledging it. It may be a simple call, such as following a strange animal sound at night, or trying a new bad-smelling dish in a foreign land, or replacing a daily practice with something novel. It may be a larger call that requires us to change our life: depart from our country, change our job, embark on a bold adventure. Or it may be the highest call of which we can conceive: the search for meaning and purpose in our life, or the search for God. Whether big or small, the Unknown beckons us to move forward, explore new ways of behavior and living, touch Life at new points, connect with the ground of our Being. By moving within the field of the known and familiar, we stop learning and developing; by moving towards the Unknown we expand and evolve. Yet many fear the Unknown. There are many reasons for this fear: evolutionary ones that have their roots in the ingrained archetypal fear of animal predators or human enemies lurking in the dark; psychological ones rooted in our love of well-established routines; social ones related to our sense of belonging and our need to conform to group behavior; existential ones having to do with the fear of encountering the light after getting used to living in our Platonic cave. Still, in spite of this fear, the lure of the Unknown is unmistakable in our life. 10 years ago, I was thinking how to move my life to the unknown future where there is no hope for the unknown brighter future. Life use to be very difficult for me. I left my family at Kasanikoro village, Koinadugu district Sierra Leone in searching for the unknown brighter future. I came to my friend in Makeni city where I continue my education with passion to be a great traveller around the global world. I was having the fear in moving my life, because I came from very poor family wherein they cannot provide the quality education I needed to attain. I found life very difficult and I was wanted to give up, and I said it will not be possible for me to travel around the globe. Sometimes in life we may push it aside for a while, we may pretend it is not there or deny its existence, but its call, in any of its many forms, keeps returning. The restlessness at the core of our being cannot allow us respite for too long. Many say they are willing to explore new possibilities in life, new ways of living, or to move into new fields of creativity and activity. However, the fear of the Unknown gives rise to a ubiquitous defense mechanism that causes many to remain idle or even completely immobilized in the Known: because of fear they try to move into the Unknown while remaining enmeshed in what they are already doing. They want to stand with one foot on the Known while groping with the other foot in the darkness of the Unknown so that they may find the point on which to make their next step. In other words, they supposedly want the Unknown and are moving towards it, while they are still busy reaping the fruits of the Known. But this is not how Life works: The movement towards the Unknown requires that the Known be left completely behind. The Unknown does not reveal its gifts unless one relinquishes all contact, all attachments, all footing on the Known. Every Unknown that stands before us in our life demands that we completely relinquish our footing on the Known. The Unknown is the great silent force that has been moving our life since our birth. It is its lure and power that helped us grow and become adults that gave us all the knowledge we have, that created the wonder and magic of the great flight of the eagle that is our life.