Carl Jung once observed,
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
This morning I came across this write up in High Existence, on becoming 'the most honest expression of yourself' with thoughts from Nietzsche (who I love right since college)..........made for an interesting read, and it sounded like one neat thought, so here's excerpts:
"The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche recognized that in order to become the master of yourself, it was necessary to overcome yourself—to leave behind your established patterns and paradigms.
He spoke of how our conditioning runs deep, and the need to regularly transcending our current conditioning to become something more.
In pursuit of this end, he developed the idea of a “gymnastics of the will”—a practice of undertaking temporary experiments of willpower, with the intention of strengthening, mastering, refining, and deepening our being.
The solution to this problem, for Nietzsche, was to regularly attempt a variety of life experiments—experiments that would push one to act contrary to one’s conditioning.
If we could just make a habit of attempting life-transforming challenges, Nietzsche thought we would unearth our own greatness, that which lies beneath our conditioning, and become the most honest expression of ourselves"
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