Dr. James Hollis

And I realized that's the voice I heard in childhood.

She was saying, you shouldn't be out there.

Now people are going to attack you.

This will draw attention to you, you see.

And her intention was protective.

In her last days, actually, before she died, she was more afraid of what people thought than whether her son was living his journey or not.

And I say this with grief for her.

And that was the message of childhood, you know, it's too much out there.

And yet something inside quickened and said, well, you need to go where those airplanes are going.

You need to go see the ocean for yourself.

You need to try to live in a foreign country and see what that's like.

Was that easy?

No, it was doubly hard because of the messages I had, but it was just necessary.

Sooner or later, again, the appointment with your life, do you keep it or you not keep the appointment?

So that was the first meeting of the appointment was to leave home and start the journey.

In terms of the archetype of the journey, first is the departure.

And then you have the initiatory experiences, which can knock you down.

And then the question is, do you get up and go to the next one?

And sooner or later, something begins to change inside and you begin to feel that this is the journey that's right for me.

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