The whole idea is that you’ve got to bring out again that which you went to recover, the unrealised, unutilised potential in yourself.*
Joseph Campbell

I thought of the old Latin root of the word desire, meaning de sider, of the stars. To have a desire in your life literally means to keep your star in sight, to follow a glimmer, a beacon, a disappearing will-o’-the-wisp over the horizon into someplace you cannot yet fully imagine.**
David Whyte

The thing about potential is
we won’t know what it really is –
It begins with a desire, but then we must
set out to release it, to
realise it,
And much can change on the journey:
How vain it is to sit down to
write when you have not stood up
to live.
Methinks that the moment my
legs begin to move,
my thoughts begin to
flow.^

Potential takes us on a wilder journey
of mythological proportions
towards that unimaginable someplace.

*Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey;
**David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
^Henry David Thoreau, from Annie Murphy Paul’s The Extended Mind.