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📿 Notes on Creating a Life
This week’s Saturday meditation comes from the American existential psychologist Rollo May (1909—1994). In his classic, The Courage to Create, May explained,
We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man’s land, to push into a forest where there are no well-worn paths and from which no one has returned to guide us. This is what the existentialists call the anxiety of nothingness. To live into the future means to leap into the unknown, and this requires a degree of courage for which there is no immediate precedent and which few people realize.
A chief characteristic of “courage” May refers to is one that requires centeredness within our own being. “That is why we must always base our commitment in the center of our own being,” explains May, “or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.”
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
How comfortable are you navigating uncertain paths in life?
What type of life are you creating?
This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
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