Degrees use to be a way to get ahead of average.

Employers now want degrees and more: another kind of average has been created.

The solution to the problem of average lies within us.

‘I must know that I am, at least in part, the very thing I am seeking.’*

You are not who and what you see yourself to be in this moment.

Even if you sense you are more, and point to a cornucopia of values and skills and dreams, this is not enough.

So you go deeper, to how these things feel – how you experience their energy.  Now you’re becoming present to the source of what awaits discovery.  It’s a place of generation for your art through your passions and skills, and when you find this you know there can be no average for you.

Or for anyone else.

Suggestions of who’s average at this level is a nonsense.

(From Richard Rohr’s Eager to Love.)