It’s the work we quietly get on with when no one is watching that makes people care to connect. Visibility alone won’t get us to where we want to go.*
(Bernadette Jiwa)
Titles […] point backward in time. They have their origin in an unrepeatable past. Titles are theatrical. Each title has a ceremonial form of behaviour.**
(James Carse)
The wholehearted way is one we walk when no-one else is looking, doing hat matters most because we are denying ourselves if we err.
In these days of social media where someone can be “followed” by millions, we can be tempted to think that numbers equate to meaning. What we need more than anything else, though, is for you to keep working at your wholeheartedness, at what will make a real difference in the world, that opens the future:
‘The only essential is this: the gift must always move.’^
(*From The Story of Telling: Building a Following.)
(**From James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games.)
(^From Lewis Hyde’s The Gift.)