Thomas Merton will just u-turn your life https://t.co/1bE2eYJTzT
PHILOSOPHER: Not just you, but all people who are attached to the “I” are self-centered. And that is precisely why it is necessary to make the switch from “attachment to self” to “concern for others.”
Ichiro Kishimi • The Courage to Be Disliked
As Viktor Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, purpose is often born from responsibility to someone or something beyond ourselves. It is not just introspective; it is connective. He writes, “The more one forgets hinself, by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love, the more human he is.”
and finally in considering others even more important than yourself. The latter is to develop to perfection generosity, discipline, patience or endurance, diligence, concentration, and wisdom, all of them infused by a penetrating insight into the nature of reality itself.