Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.
You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.