"our great cosmic watermark"

While I'm not sure that I'm perfectly clear on this subject, my favorite blog of the semester was Kevin's blog on inscape and instress. I really enjoyed hearing about inscape in class, getting to know the concept, but this blog took the cake.

The only question I have that remains is how to discover instress, how to pursue it? Must one practice detachment? Yes, likely, I would imagine . . . Also, I assume we do not need to go looking for our mysterious inscape but, rather, it is simply part of us that we must learn to notice/recognize—"our great cosmic watermark." What a great way to put it.
Once we have instressed our inscape, we can be sure that we are fulfilling our duties, contributing to the positive transformations of other sentient beings.
I realize that this leaks into the Emergent Lit class, but "instressing one's inscape" sounds a lot like Santiago's pursuit of his "Personal Legend" (the other way around actually.) At the end of The Alchemist, Coelho explains that the objective of life is to transform oneself into a better human being than one was at the start; this entails unearthing one's Personal Legend—the predestined, prewritten stamp of whatness given to you at birth.