to show up in the best way we can

• shift from dependent psychology to psychospiritual independence
• perverse twins fear and lethargy
• That is all that life really asks of us, to show up as the person we really are, as best we can manage, under circumstances over which we may have no control. This showing up as best we can is growing up
• Marcus Aurelius was as susceptible as we to the easy comfort of despair that we have more to handle than someone else or that others are better equipped than we for life’s journey ...
• When we show up as best we can, then on any given day, we are a grown-up and contribute to carrying the world’s burden, rather than adding to it.