Your Becoming Self—the Existential Search:
Meaning, Being, and the Transformative
Once upon a short time ago, many people traveled the world in search of themselves. Interestingly, they seem to have left themselves in some foreign and very exotic places like Paris and Rome, Algiers and Katmandu, and the Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent. No one seemed to think they might find themselves in Jersey City, New Jersey, Brownsville, Texas, or Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. For many, they found something of value in all that sort of journey, and for others, they found a wonderful distraction from the seemingly endless and predictable pattern of their lives to which they eventually returned and to which they adjusted. Others entered into a dead end from which they may never have returned. It seems a little like the man who looked for the keys to his home under the street lamp rather than in front of the door where he lost them because, "There's more light here."
Our search for the self begins and ends within us. At the same time, the search takes us a long, long way because it encompasses all of our lives, all of the elements of our being, and the ways in which we make meaning and form out of the world and about of ourselves and our lives.
Your Becoming Self—the Existential Search: Meaning, Being, and the Transformative helps that search make sense and become natural and doable. This book offers a belief in the inherent ability for each of us to make successfully make this journey as an individual. It's our self after all. We don't need all kinds of regimented exercises to do so. Some thoughts and ideas about the self, its development, and its repression can open a world of choice to us in terms of how we choose to live our lives every day and through those choices and actions, find our search in progress. Not only we will find our search productively in progress, but we may well find that other choices we wanted to make in our lives also happen as a natural outgrowth of the choices we make in our search toward the self each day.
If we feel concerned with making changes in our lives and in ourselves, we needn't worry or feel overwhelmed with the idea. There's nothing wrong with us. We just need to know that our selves can make choices that make all the differences we need in life, one choice at a time.
Your Becoming Self—the Existential Search: invites us into awareness, transformation, and liberation where we find we no need for changing ourselves. Instead, we can make choices which search for and fulfill our becoming self. We can deeply enjoy the result along with all the others in our lives. We search to find the self not to lose it. In finding the self, we become who we have always been—ourselves.