I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.
- Bill Plotkin
River Kennax.comI've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world. - Bill Plotkin
If your soul is your ultimate place in the world and you need to live from that place to be fully yourself, then the world cannot be fully itself until you become fully yourself.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Mostly in vain, we try to fill the hollowness of longing with pleasure, busyness and distraction. But it always returns.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
I was bored and unsatisfied and desperately seeking purpose.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
There were hundreds of thousands out in the work world who frequently but secretly despaired of keeping their souls alive in the organizations for which they worked and who desperately needed to reclaim a life they could call their own. A life of our own, from which we can give to others and to our organizations in an unresentful and ultimately gen
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Insofar as I keep choosing to try to find that satisfaction in finite, created things—whether it’s sex or adoration or beauty or power—I’m going to be caught in a cycle where I’m more and more disappointed in those things and more and more dependent on those things. I keep choosing things with diminishing returns, and when that becomes habitual, an
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