Facing the great unknown is THE existential task that humanity and each unique individual has grappled with from the time of cave men and women drawing what their lives were like: their animals, favorite moments, terrible event, experience of the divine.
To find meaning in life requires first, the acknowledgment that we don’t know everything! None of us really knows what will happen tomorrow.
And it requires an acknowledgment of the limits to our individual power and agency.
All while exploring how far you can use your vitality to push your own limits and agency with your creativity and motivation, to achieve your aims in life.
Recently, Emmy, a longterm client, told me she comforts herself with a phrase I said in my Yoga and Talk therapy groups many years ago.
It’s this idea:
It’s not all up to you. You think it is, but really it’s not. There are many other people who are also responsible and can see what’s happening, and may be even closer to it.
You are not alone. And you alone cannot fix it. Don’t imagine that you can.
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