Sublime

As the psychologist James Hollis puts it, “Your ego prefers certainty to uncertainty, predictability over surprise, clarity over ambiguity.8 Your ego always wants to shroud over the barely audible murmurings of the heart.” The ego, says Lee Hardy, wants you to choose a job and a life that you can use as a magic wand to impress others.

Social Context The human self requires rootedness in others. This is primarily an ontological matter?a matter of beingwhat we are. It is not just a moral matter, a matter of what ought to be. And the moral aspect of it grows out of the ontological.?

Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?

Choosing to trust people is a decision we make, a decision that stems from how we view life.

The American philosopher William James explored this idea of two selves in depth. He believed you must be an observer of things around you to survive and thrive, but you must also observe yourself and be observed by others to have any consistent sense of self-concept and self-image.[2]

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.