“Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.”
–Mary Oliver
Have you ever found yourself reaching out for something that is beyond your grasp — not physically, but mentally and spiritually?
Have you entertained dreams of being more than you are today — not just in terms of accomplishment and success, but in wholeness and in fullness?
I know I have. I would venture to say that most people have.
The problem comes when so many of us tamp down on the yearnings of this third self. We settle for mediocre, mundane living. We settle for getting by. We settle for a life that is physically fulfilling, but not mentally or spiritually so.
That is not the way we are meant to live. We are mental and spiritual beings — perhaps even more so than we are physical beings. We are meant to have life and to have it “more abundantly.”
Never stop yearning. never stop striving.
Let the third self rage, and let it rage freely.