When do you feel your most purposeful?
Shawna spent the night. And when she sleeps over we talk about hopes and dreams. Visions and ambitions.
Dreams.
Today, I’m mulling over the idea of purpose. What is my purpose.
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Having spent the last ten years restlessly roving the planet, Melissa Schilling, a published writer and photographer, has spent time coordinating photo-art therapy in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, searching for huitlecoche on the Mayan Riviera, riding bicycles through Patagonia, cooking Basque food in the Pais Vasco and deep-sea fishing off the coast of Cuba. email: melissa@projecthopeart.org
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I read this from Thomas Merton, one of my fave philosophers, even though I don’t believe in God, which is strange that he would be one of my favorite philosophers… but we have this weird understanding between ourselves… and i just seem to get what he’s trying to convey most of the time, if I leave out the God/ Christ references…anyway… it pertains to this particular conversation that we had.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.