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Rendering Significance

I live my own life no longer, but the life of the living Whole.

— EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES

A leader who wishes to win the highest level of commitment—spiritual commitment—must be able to imbue her insight, vision, and story with what mythologist and author Joseph Campbell called spiritual significance. Writing about those who aspire to transform human life, Campbell noted, “the problem is nothing if not that of rendering the modern world spiritually significant—or rather (phrasing the same principle the other way round) nothing if not that of making it possible for men and women to come to full human maturity through ...

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