We call this enterprise we are in “the work.”
We make it sound like it’s some kind of labor, like digging holes in the ground with shovels. And that we have to try really hard to do anything at all.
But I think that this entire concept is mistaken. Because what we call “the work” is really just a call to be alive. To enter life and embrace it for what it is, as it is; and to embrace this is not to try hard, but to be; so when we say “the work,” I think, I feel, and I sense that what we really mean is the Being.
This is a bit of an awkward expression. So we say “the work” when what we actually mean is “the Being.” And to be within the Being is an act that is almost effortless in its nature, which is why I think “the effortless effort” was what my old group leader Henry Brown used to call it.
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