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The roots of our personal destinies are usually to be
found in our childhood. Therein are formed our most basic
conceptions of what is most real and reliable. Our
destiny is implicit in our decisions regarding the
trustworthiness of perceived realities. Our destiny is
not explicit. It may not be explicated in words, as our
destinies transcend human conception. Our destinies are
to fulfill our unique potentials with personal
integrity---potentials which are implicit in our
childhood, become more evident in our youth, and fully
manifest in our adulthood.
Not all our potentials may be fulfilled. We must say
no to many of our potentials, but our focus need not be
upon the potentials to which we say no. To fulfill our
destinies we need to learn to focus upon affirmations
rather than denials. To focus upon potentials to which we
are ostensibly saying no is to undermine our integrity---
diverting attention and energy from more helpful
endeavors. Such duplicity is usually a sign of an
unresolved conflict between claims upon us from without---
and our most genuine instincts, desires, needs, hopes,
aspirations, and visions. Our destinies can not be
fulfilled so long as such conflicts are accepted as being
normal, for such acceptance leads to coping procedures
which undermine our integrity and dialogue. Such sinful
coping procedures need to be recognized as signs of dis-
ease. It is our destiny to be at-ease with each other.
Destiny has to do with the quality of life, not with
the fulfillment of goals, objectives, and expectations.
Destiny pertains to subjective realities. To presume to
measure objectively the degree to which we fulfill our
destiny is to pervert our awareness of our destiny. Such
a perversion will lead us to abandon our destiny in favor
of meaningless accomplishments which can be measured and
compared. People who are unaware of their proper destiny
tend to be insecure and feel a need to compare their
accomplishments with those of others---presuming that
their fulfillment can thereby be confirmed objectively.
The profit-motive in a capitalist society tends to support
such conceptions of our destinies; for such conceptions
promote sales of presumed means to the fulfillment of
destinies. There are no real means to fulfillment of
destinies---because destinies pertain to qualities of
living, rather than to destinations.
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