to show up in the best way we can

• shift from dependent psychology to psychospiritual independence
• perverse twins fear and lethargy
• That is all that life really asks of us, to show up as the person we really are, as best we can manage, under circumstances over which we may have no control. This showing up as best we can is growing up
• Marcus Aurelius was as susceptible as we to the easy comfort of despair that we have more to handle than someone else or that others are better equipped than we for life’s journey …
• When we show up as best we can, then on any given day, we are a grown-up and contribute to carrying the world’s burden, rather than adding to it.

linked mentions for "to show up in the best way we can":

1. well-trod paths of others
   too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone else’s plan for our one precious life … a gap in our lives between where we find
   
2. asking of the other what we are not addressing ourselves
   projection and transference two dynamics of relationships our existential proclivities to fear and lethargy, and both nemeses win more battles than
   
3. beeing a grown-up in a contemporary culture
   contemporary culture … been grown-ups through responsibly exercising parental, fiduciary, relational, and societal roles … we play all these mature
   
4. projection and transference two dynamics of relationships
   a projection is a mechanism whereby our psychological contents leave us … seeking an object — a person, an institution, a role — upon which to