So, in the most natural way, I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and this I regarded as my task of tasks.*
Carl Jung

A person who doesn’t know what the universe is, doesn’t know where they are. A person who doesn’t know their purpose in life doesn’t know who they are or what the universe is. A person who doesn’t know any of these things doesn’t know why they are here. So what to make of people who seek or avoid the praise of people who have no knowledge of where or who they are.**
Marcus Aurelius

Will we ever fully know who we are, that is,
Who we can grow to be? –
I doubt the world is made up of people who fully know themselves
or don’t,
More likely we find people moving towards their full selves
or not – and
which am I, and
which are you?^

Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name.^^

*Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^A myth comprises four elements: And of what I regard as four major functions that mythology serves, the first one is the mystical function.  The second is the cosmological, re-relating to the cosmos.  The third is the sociological, and the fourth is the pedagogical, carrying the individual through the stages of his life. (Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey);
^^George Appleton, from the Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer.