He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.

— Marcus Aurelius

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Two questions hold each other up: what kind of place this is, and what you are for in it. Without some working answer to the first you cannot locate yourself, and without an answer to the second the first stays abstract. People who feel lost are often not short of options but short of orientation.

You do not need a grand answer, only a current one. Write two sentences this week: what you think the world mostly runs on, and what you are trying to do while you are in it. Having something written down beats carrying the question around unexamined.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you think you were made for, honestly?

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