Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always –
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing no less than everything) …*
T. S. Eliot

Knowledge allows us to get our bearings, but it’s imagination and action that give its the forward motion we need to start and finish.**
Bernadette Jiwa

Knowing how stuff gets in the way of life-in-all-its-fullness,
Jesus of Nazerath
encouraged his disciples instead to seek the kingdom –
And it’s remains true that there’s more than the latest fashion and
quirky restaurant;
they’re fun but they don’t deed our sense of
destiny,
Our greater story:
The basic story of the hero journey
Involves giving up where you are,
going into the realm of adventure,
coming to some kind of
symbolically rendered realisation,
and then returning to the field of normal life.^

But to know our destiny is not enough,
We must put it into action, and
this is not easy at all;
Joseph Campbell identifies three outcomes to
the returning to the normal life with the
realisation we have discovered:
There will be no reception for it, and so we give up and
return to the “fashion and food,” the “bread and circus” life;
We only give the world what it wants (serving food and fashion with our discovery); or,
We slowly teach the world what it is that we are returning with –
It is in the actioning that we’ll figure this out.

Viva el reino.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Bernadette Jiwa’s blog The Story of Telling: Start to Finish;
^Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss.