ferocity of soul + a willingness to wander

[moschus]

cross-posted from www.tribalwriter.com/

“As the late theologian, mystic + Harvard professor Howard Thurman often said, there are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. “The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.” - Caroline Myss

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[habiliments]

It could be that the mission of your life is to find your mission, and in that process discover who you are and what you have to give.

Thank you for this. I needed to see it somewhere outside my own head, where the feeling that what I'm really doing right now - and it's OK - is figuring out what I'm doing. I've taken a lot of leaps recently, but this last series of questions - What feeds you? is how a friend put it; What do you have to give? always makes me panic a little - is proving extra-super challenging.

[cornerofmadness]

I really liked this. well said and I'll have to remember to go look for your next book.

[movingfinger]

...there are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. “The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.”Where this falls down is with that second question. If it needs to be done, or if you alone can do it, just go do it. Looking around to see who's with you, who's watching, who's your audience, who supports you---that is the anxiety of the second-rate. You create alone, and it doesn't matter who's "with" you. Be indifferent to the others, and you'll go further and get more done

[moschus]

Interesting that you assume that to be with someone automatically means you must be in need of their approval.

Myss's point is that you have to figure yourself out first (where am I going?) before you partner up with someone else (Who will go with me?). Only then is the person truly and freely chosen -- no guilt, manipulation, deception -- and the person's path is naturally aligned with yours, inclined to go in the same direction.

[niamh_sage]

As Carolyn Myss puts it, “You cannot live for prolonged periods of time within the polarity of being true to yourself and needing the approval of others.”

Ha! Just exactly what I needed to hear (read) right now. I am going to paste that to my commonplace book.

I love Caroline Myss. She's been delivering wake up calls of one sort or another to me since 1998.