Work at its best is the arrival in an outer form of something intensely inner and personal, and the art of working itself – a bridge between the public and private, a bridge of experience which can be an agony and ecstasy to cross.*
David Whyte

Everybody said you should serve a cause larger than yourself, but nobody tells you how.**
David Brooks

We all want to spend our days usefully, for our work
to be meaningful and to make a difference, but
even in the 21st century, when you would think this would be
more possible than ever before in history, the number of life-numbing jobs
proliferate, and,
The lines between work and life have to be sharply drawn.

The job we want may be evading us, but,
If we were to spin this around, inside each of us
there lies the work we want to do, wrapped
in a unique mix of talents and abilities and passion and more;
Once we discover and begin to find ways to experiment with and
express these, then boundaries begin to
dissolve, and we enter the ecstasy
and the agony of the difference we can make, which cannot
be held within an either/or or this/that, but
within a rhythm – as in poetry or
song.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**David Brooks’ The Second Mountain.