But that working within the limits of your moment in history, and your finite time and talents, you actually got round to doing – and made life more luminous for the rest of us by doing – whatever magnificent task or weird little thing it was you came here for.*
Oliver Burkeman

When we open ourselves to the world and pay homage to that which is larger than ourselves, we receive a blessing from the outer world. We get something back. We are ourselves enriched by the larger understanding of the cosmos and our place in it.**
Alan Lightman

I leave the magnificent task for others –
Maybe for you,
Mine is the weird little thing –
Small, bespoke, boutique;
Opening one’s self to the greater world is
a good place to begin,
To be able to notice what others do not and
to lean into what is more noticeable than other things –
And at first, we may not even know why,
But we must bring it into the world,
Not to everyone, but those who will know
it is for them.

*Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks;
**Alan Lightman’s The Transcendent Brain.