Seemingly superhuman forces always call on individual human beings to simplify themselves. A kind of simplification, achieved day by day, hour by hour, in our own work, right into the essence of what needs to be done.*
David Whyte

Thus, in the journey of transformation, we participate in these symbolic dramas and actively engage in archetypal existence. We form a powerful sense of identity with the archetypal character, and this mythic being becomes an aspect of ourselves writ large.**
Jean Houston

What is this simplicity? –
Well, it is not less but more;
M. C. Richards captures well what is being accomplished in
the person who cannot help but be transformed by the journey:
I am not concerned with what we like.
I am concerned with our power to grasp,
to comprehend,
to penetrate,
and to embrace.^

This is a person who has entered the complexity
and has both discovered and generated their essential self,
That is, their archetypal character and story,
not a fairy tale, but a legend,
not for for themselves, but for others.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
^M. C. Richards’ Centering.