The imagination and its ability to discern bigger underlying patterns is just as important if not more important than a firm grasp of details of what we want. The mighty interior wish is more important than mere outward details that see to tell others that you don’t have a clue what you are doing.

In many ways, our to-do lists have become the postmodern equivalent of the priest’s rosary, the lama’s sutra, or the old prayer book—keeping a larger, avalanching reality at bay. Above all, the to-do list keeps the evil of not-doing at bay, a list that many of us like to chant and cycle through religiously as we make our way to work through the commute.
…..Little wonder, then, made as we are and trained to organize complexity, we are constantly trying to assign each and everything a name so that we can organize it and control it, so much so that it can be tempting to try to name and organize something that cannot be pressured or regulated, this elusive thing called the self.