Greetings Friends,
Thank you for reading and listening this week! Below is a short contemplation from Soren Kierkegaard's journal, along with links to this week’s podcasts and meditations.
Until next week, be wise and be well!
📿 What Am I to Do?
This week’s contemplation comes from the journal entries of the Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote,
What I really need is to get clear about what I am to do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find my purpose, to see what God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth that is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. …
“What use would it be to discover a so-called objective truth,” asked Kierkegaard, if it had no deeper meaning for his life? To lead a completely human life and not merely one of knowledge must be “upon something that is bound up with the deepest roots of my existence.”
Kierkegaard continued,
One must first learn to know oneself before knowing anything else. Not until a person has inwardly understood himself and then sees the course he is to take does his life gain peace and meaning; only then is he free of that irksome, sinister traveling companion—that irony of life that manifests itself in the sphere of knowledge and invites true knowing to begin with a not-knowing. …
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
What does it mean to find your purpose in life?
How does one begin to know thyself?
This Week’s Podcasts…
This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading/listening this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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