Living On Purpose
Peter Keating: “Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can’t you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You’re so serious, so old. Everything’s important with you. Everything’s great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can’t you ever be comfortable–and unimportant?” ~ Ayn Rand from The Fountainhead
Howard Roark: “No.”
That’s brilliant!
Now, to be sure, if you don’t intend to make the most of your life, live as a second-hander, etc., etc., the above might be more than a little “in your face.”
Remember Maslow’s admonition: “If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”
And Joseph Campbell puts the need to be intense about our actualization process another way when he quotes Sri Ramakrishna saying, “Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”
The spotlight is back on you, as is always the case.
Are you living on purpose?
Do you have the courage and inner strength for your own greatness?
I think you do!
