The meaning of our lives
is found in the stories we tell about ourselves.
Carl Jung once said that the most important question
anyone can ask is:
What myth am I living?
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories
and create new ones
we become the authors, the author/ities,
of our own lives.
When we forget or pay no attention
to our personal histories
we begin to live by somebody else's
myths, meanings and values
that do not fit the shape of our own spirits,
surrender the governance of our lives
to some second-hand authority,
some official myth maker.
is found in the stories we tell about ourselves.
Carl Jung once said that the most important question
anyone can ask is:
What myth am I living?
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories
and create new ones
we become the authors, the author/ities,
of our own lives.
When we forget or pay no attention
to our personal histories
we begin to live by somebody else's
myths, meanings and values
that do not fit the shape of our own spirits,
surrender the governance of our lives
to some second-hand authority,
some official myth maker.
~ Sam Keen
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