Once in a while, we like to repost articles we think you will find helpful. This article was recently published on our alumni website, Asbury For Life, under the Soul Care Community blog. In it, Kathy Milans talks about how toxic notoriety and the need to be known actually is and how being a nobody can really be healthy in the right season.
Becoming a Nobody so I can Become a Somebody
By: Kathy Milans
I’ve been known in my community and now I am opting to become unknown.
Fr. Thomas Keating, a Cistercian monk, says that we interact with the world through “programs for happiness.” As part of the way humans develop we all seek power and control, affection and esteem, and security and survival.
I grew up in an environment that was far from encouraging. So, I figured out how to get acknowledgement and kudos by striving to be the best in all that I did. I told myself that all of this hard work and self-denial was for the benefit of the people that I served. While that was partially true, I recognize that there was also the selfish motive of trying to prove my worth to the world. I have spent a good deal of my life chasing after esteem and fueling the existence of my prideful false self. […]
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