The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life (The Pathless Path Collection Book 1)

by Paul Millerd

I am inspired by what the writer Leo Rosten once argued was the purpose of life: “to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost.

“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

So I might add to Steinbeck’s advice: nothing good gets away, as long as you create the space to let it emerge.

As Thoreau once wrote at Walden Pond, “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”

Many people are capable of more than they believe.

Creativity is a real path to optimism, meaning, and connection.

question the default.