The way to maintain one’s connection to the wild is to ask yourself what is it you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is between things that beckon us and things that call from our souls.*
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.**
John Stuart Mill

There will be those who –
Even with the best of intents – will tell you,
You should do this, but
you are a living thing, impossible to
categorise,
A wild thing, with a growth all of your own
to discover –
A must waiting to be manifested.

*Clarissa Pinkola Estés Women Who Run With the Wolves;
**Mary Midgley’s The Myths We Live By.