Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.