“Attempts to divide ourselves into divine and not divine break us apart. Better for our overall composure to focus on whether a particular call has integrity or not, whether it makes us feel more or less authentic, more or less connected to ourselves and others, more or less right, not morally but intuitively. Better to ask whether a call will give us a feeling of aliveness, which, as mythologist Joseph Campbell argued, is more important than even meaning for people to experience. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life,” Campbell explained in The Power of Myth. “I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… of the rapture of being alive.””
–Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
