Realizing an authentic life can be painful, exhausting, seemingly impossible, and one of our deepest psychological needs. Psychotherapist and former monk Thomas Moore on the role that failures in play understanding self: “People carry around a heavy burden of not feeling authentic because they have failed marriages and their work life hasn’t gone the way it should, and they’ve disappointed everybody, including themselves. When people think of these as just failures, as opposed to learning experiences, they don’t have to feel the weight of their lives or the choices they’ve made. That disowning creates a division that becomes the sense of inauthenticity.”
Dare To Be Yourself
Realizing an authentic life can be painful, exhausting, seemingly impossible, and one of our deepest psychological needs. Psychotherapist and former monk Thomas Moore on the role that failures in play understanding self: “People carry around a heavy burden of not feeling authentic because they have failed marriages and their work life hasn’t gone the way it should, and they’ve disappointed everybody, including themselves. When people think of these as just failures, as opposed to learning experiences, they don’t have to feel the weight of their lives or the choices they’ve made. That disowning creates a division that becomes the sense of inauthenticity.”