Simon Griffee
Design consulting, art direction, photography.

Does This Path Have a Heart?

Published 2018 April 30

Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.

—Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge