As soon as humans had completed the evolutionary process, they found that a longing for transcendence was built into their condition.*
Karen Armstrong

There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, and become a realisation of your own personal myth.**
Joseph Campbell

Moses Mendelssohn confessed:
There lies in me an
irresistible drive towards
completeness and perfection.^ –
I understand this longing, though
I concluded that I’d probably choose
beauty over perfection.

I do want to be the best me
I can be, though, and to make the best
contribution that I can bring, and
I enjoy the thought of Viktor Frankl that
we are each an unrepeatable imperfection
without whom the world is the poorer –
A thought to play with on our
transcendent journeys.

(Thank you to those who have recently subscribed to thin|silence; I hope I encourage you to share the beauty of your unrepeatable imperfection.)

*Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth;
**Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
^Alan Lightman’s The Transcendent Brain.