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Stardate: 20230814.1510 | |
Location: Family Room | |
Input Device: Steam Deck (navi) attached to TV. | |
Audio: Downstairs dryer | |
Visual: TV with boxes running debian vm running Xfce with x2go | |
session attached to lab workstation running ratpoison/nano. | |
Energy: 50% | |
Mental: 50% | |
Emotional: questioning. | |
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"...If our work does not support our soul, then the soul will exact | |
its butcher's bill elsewhere. Wherever the soul's agenda is not | |
served, some pathology will service in the arena of daily life. | |
We may choose careers, but we do not choose vocation. Vocation | |
chooses us. *To choose what chooses us* is a freedom the by-product | |
of which will be a sense of rightness and a harmony within, even if | |
lived out in the world of conflict, absent validation, and at | |
considerable personal cost. | |
Too often we remain in service to the agenda of the first half of | |
life when the soul has already moved on to the agenda of the second. | |
In the first half of life there is a place for ambition, for the | |
driving powers of the ego, which compel us to over throw our fears | |
and to step into the world. As we have seen, the chief task of the | |
first half of life is to build a sense of ego strength sufficient to | |
engage relationship, social role expectations, and to support | |
oneself. But we all fall into an overidentification with the ego and | |
these various roles, no matter how worthy they may be, and often they | |
are not, ego identifications alone will not suffice to satisfy the | |
soul over the long run..." [1] | |
[1] Hollis, James. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How | |
To Finally, Really Grow Up. | |
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