A Firm Persuasion

I have been exploring New Avenues in the past week and I'm trying to float and see where the current takes me. More on that in a while, when I see a little more clearly where I'm headed.
Meanwhile I have also discovered new writers, which is a wondrous thing, a new seam of inspiration in my reading and thinking about Home. As well as Wheatley, I have found David Whyte, ordered House of Belonging from amazon and have Crossing the Unknown Sea: work as a Pilgrimage of Identity (perfect!) from the library. He begins with a quote from William Blake.

Then I asked: Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, 
make it so? 

He replied: All poets believe that it does, 

and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion 
removed mountains, 

but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.

Whyte writes "To have a firm persuasion, to set out boldly in our work, is to make a pilgrimage of our labors,  to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task. ...Life is a creative, intimate and unpredictable conversation if it is nothing else...and our life and our work are both the result of the particular way we hold that passionate conversation. In Blake's sense, a firm persuasion, was a...bounty that came from paying close attention to an astonishing world and the way each of us is made differently and uniquely for that world."