After all, a life without a cause is a life without affect.*
Paulo Coelho

Entelechy, a Greek word meaning the dynamic purpose that drives us forward toward realising our essential self, that gives us our higher destiny and the capacities and skills that our destiny needs for its unfolding.**
Jean Houston

I am not my cause and
you are not yours –
Please, god, save us from ourselves;
It doesn’t matter what the cause is –
We can try different ones until we
find one that sticks;
What matters is that we can spend ourselves
in service to it – that is, to others – and in our spending
discover our never-spentness, and
everyone can bring entelechy to what they do.^

No choice is inherently the best.
What makes something the best choice?
You.
You make it the best through your commitment to it.
Your dedication and actions make any choice great.^^
Living for others is how to live.*^

*Paulo Coelho’s Aleph;
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
^Myths have helped people through millennia to figure out the best ways to live. Perhaps try rewriting your own story as a myth: the challenges you must do something about, what you learn about yourself as you engage with these, especially your talents, energies, and values.
^^Derek Sivers’ How To Live;
*^Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No.