Both/and

If you’re unwilling to interact with uncertainty, then you’ve greatly limited who you are and what you’ve become. You’ve limited your ability to make choices, because all choices involve uncertainty and risk.*
Ben Hardy

When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life – well, if you don’t know where it is or what it is, you’ll be sorry.**
Joseph Campbell

We increase the possibility of our becoming
by stretching ourselves into the unknown and unfamiliar around us –
Not knowing what will happen is part of the deal
AND
By nurturing and ordering our inner world;
It’s not either/or –
We need both/and –
For we bring our discovering into a place of
reflection and transformation, which in turn impels us outward
Into new places, ideas, relationships, roles, actions and behaviours.

*Ben Hardy’s Personality Isn’t Permanent;
**Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers’ The Power of Myth.

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