Out walking & talking and it was dank as you like. Quiet and still. (I feel compelled to use the word “ethereal”.)
A visible mist connected all objects together (how apt).
Anyway, we could seldom see the path. And I know this hill like the back of my hand, but we were engrossed in conversation and my attention was 100% on that and there came a point when I turned to my client and 'fessed up:
“I have no idea where we are right now, by the way. I don't know where this leads. Shall we continue?”
It brought to mind a litany of quotes about our path through life, towards some destination or other that we feel pulled towards. Here’s a selection for you:
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
~ Barack Obama
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“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”
~ Rosalia de Castro
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“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
How many times do you have to hear so many different people say the same thing, before you start taking it seriously?
So many of us stop ourselves in our tracks because we “can't see the way” or “can't see how.”
➤ Of course you can't see the way – it's not been created yet!
➤ Of course you can't see how – you've not discovered that yet!
Moment to moment, you do one small thing that advances your cause. That's it. That's all it takes.
Introduce a variable. Reassess. Introduce a variable. Reassess. And watch what happens.
One more quote and I've saved the best 'til last. Joseph Campbell, one of my heroes, who has informed my career-change work maybe more than any other:
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“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else's path - you are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realise your potential.”
~ Joseph Campbell
Enjoy the journey.
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Giles