Serving the Psycho-Spiritual Needs of People since 1984...Welcome to the Quote of the Week!
This week, something a little different — One idea/Theme, TELOS, from five voices across 2,500 years of philosophy, psychology, and literature, all arriving at the same essential truth ~ "We need to become who we need to be." And that raises a question I’m wrestling with myself. Now all I need is a clue about who that actually is.
And 2,500 years later, we're still wrestling with the same idea...
"Become such as you are, having learned what that is."
Pindar, Greek lyric poet, 5th century B.C.
"What a man can be, he must be."
Abraham Maslow
"Become who you are!"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Joseph Campbell
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This week's Care Package: Becoming Who You Need (Want)to Be
3 Questions to Think More Deeply
- What challenge in your life right now is quietly asking you to grow into someone you haven't been yet?
- Is there a quality — courage, patience, discipline, softness — that you know you need more of, but have been waiting for circumstances to hand you?
- If the person you need to become is already possible, what is the one step — just one — that moves you toward them today?
Article: "You Are Not a Fixed Thing" — Maria Popova / The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.
TED Talk: "The Psychology of Self-Motivation" — Scott Geller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Book Worth Knowing: Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
(The original argument that we become who we must, in response to what life asks of us)
3 Songs That Echo the Theme...
"The Climb" — Miley Cyrus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
"Hall of Fame" — The Script ft. will.i.am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
"I Am Light" — India.Arie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!
