Carlos Castaneda counsels us to choose a path with a heart.

If the path we are on does not have a heart, then we must choose another.

Robert Greene tells us we can choose a path for the wrong reasons: money or fame or such.

It might take some time to find a path with a heart.  I was in my mid-forties.

(I was reading something from Erwin McManus on potential: basically, if you’re 45 years old and people are still talking about your potential, excuse yourself from the conversation, enter a closet and weep.  I was forty-five.  Longer story: before I was forty-six, Erwin had helped me find my path with a heart.  Whatever, your age, if you’re still trying to turn potential into potency, get in touch.)

An industrial view of the path is that we choose it as we leave formal education and we remain on it for the rest of our lives – straight and linear.   This view worked reasonably well if you had an eye for the product m0re than people.  It does not work very well now.

Now we search for a path with a heart.  Anything but straight and linear.  It’s got a lot of bends and dips and blind corners.  Admittedly, this can be scary.  It’s our choice, for all the right reasons – no one else to blame.

Your path is found by being true to your self, but I think one point of origin isn’t enough, you need to be true to others, and you need to be true to world you are a part of, too.