Another insightful saying from the book Everyday Psychology.
‘To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.’ — Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Steve Edwards comments: ‘This famous quotation has great wisdom. The theme is a core one in the psychological literature, emphasized in many ways by writers such as Rogers, Frankl, Freud, Maslow, May etc. Its message is that even if we wanted to, we cannot truly be anyone else. Also while we choose our paths in life we have no choice in our birth, are governed by life circumstances and are all faced with an essentially hidden future. Our task is to realize our potentialities, to fill our skins to transcend our selves, to redesign and reinhabit our worlds. This is our essential great life goal.’
I know Dr Steve Edwards personally and greatly appreciate his thoughts and writings. His experience and depth of human consciousness, situations and behaviour. A very upstanding , double doctorate, gentleman and human being.