Paradox: You Cannot Be Yourself by Aiming at Yourself Each person is unique, but only with human engagement is the unique self confirmed, maintained and developed. It is only in the contact of the I-Thou encounter that the uniqueness of each person develops. Only by knowing how we are with other people and how they are with us do we truly become

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It’s hard to let go of my instinct to fix myself when the opposite has so often shown me a path forward, or been celebrated. But it’s becoming increasingly clear to me that taking care of myself means knowing when to push versus trust, fight versus surrender. So many modern schools of thought seem to want to nudge us toward one or the other—perhaps... See more