I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.
- Bill Plotkin
I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world. - Bill Plotkin
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
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Most of the time there is a gap between the life we know is possible and the one we live. That gap appears as restlessness, pain, longing, fear, irredeemable loneliness, your skin crawling—some uncomfortable state.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
What if, buried in your ambition, is a desire for something more, someone else? Might that explain the persistent disappointment?