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DISCOVER YOUR CALLING: THE LIFE'S TASK

  Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being. The voice that calls him to that authentic being is what we call ‘vocation’. But the majority of men devote themselves to silencing that voice of the vocation and refusing to hear it. They manage to make a noise within themselves… to distract their own attention in order not to hear it and they defraud themselves by substituting for their genuine delves a false course of life. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset Many of the greatest masters in the world experienced some kind of force or voice or sense of destiny that guided them forward. For Socrates, it was his daemon (a voice that he heard, perhaps from the gods, which inevitably spoke to him in the negative- telling him about the things to avoid). Such feelings can be seen as purely mystical, hallucinations or delusions. But they can be explained in a certain way: All of us are born unique and far all of us, this uniqueness comes to pla...