You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not know what your owe anyone or what anyone owes you. You must have a place you can go to where you do not know what your work is or who you work for, where you do not know who you are married to or who your children are.*
Joseph Campbell

You can’t step in the same river twice, because your footprint the first time turned the river into a different river. And it changed you as well.**
Seth Godin

Leave your ordinary world awhile, and
enter your special sphere,
Be lost with yourself, less selfish
with all you carry, to
be restored to yourself, and find you are
unable to remain the same.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Seth Godin’s This is Strategy.