We do need to find ourselves but we need to understand that it can only happen if we are ready to begin to lose ourselves. To find our true self is a driving force in human development. At all the stages of our life’s journey – psychological, sexual, emotional, physical development – finding oneself is the great force I think, the deeper push that keeps us going and pushes us through difficult times, if we can get through them, into the next phase of our life. That’s why we don’t feel satisfied for long even when we get what we want, when we fulfil our ambitions. We’ve got what we’ve longed for and worked for, maybe for a long time, even then we are still not satisfied. Status, qualification, or even emotional security is not enough.
( Finding Oneself 1 Laurence Freeman )
