The conversation

We need at every stage in our journey through work, to be in conversation with our desire for something suited to us and our individual natures.*
David Whyte

the will to be oneself is heroism**
José Ortega y Gasset

My work is a conversation
between myself and another towards that person developing
the most important conversation of all –
The one they will have with themselves every day.

In the 1970s, Julia Cameron introduced us to morning pages for this purpose,
A way to be present to oneself and the day;
An updating of journaling and meditation and presence –
Practices wrapped in religions for thousands of years.

At the heart of this conversation we have with ourselves, we are exploring
our identity, resilience, creativity,
Out of which flows the possibility of a life-changing conversation
with another.

When you find what you’re meant to do, you do it.^

*David White’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey;
^Ryan Holiday’s Discipline is Destiny.

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