Staying open in our work

You must remain open to the possibilities and resist the temptation to make a closure before your life has run out. This means always keeping your very identity open-ended, because a life work defines you. Spiritual writers sometimes say that all finite loves point to an infinite love, and so there is always a yearning for more. The same could be true of a life work. Any finite task or career points to another beyond it. Your sense of what you are meant to do with your life has to remain open-ended, no matter how much or how little you feel you have accomplished. You never know fully what you are called to do.

Thomas Moore, A Life at Work

2 thoughts on “Staying open in our work

  1. Karl, this is exactly a guidance I neede today. It enabled me to relax, but also think openly about the opportunity that may be opening for me:) Thank you.

  2. There always needs to be a lack of ambition in what we think we want to accomplish…or fear we won’t…because we…’never know fully what (we) are called to do.’

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