In her brilliant book ‘I Will Not Die An Unlived Life’, Dawna Markova writes:
Then I read something by Rachel Naomi Remen that sent a vibration through my mind, cracking it wide open... She said, "We are not broken, we are just unfinished." Suddenly I realized that my future was not a series of damaged places that I needed to fix. Rather, my life was a work of art waiting to be completed. As the dust settled, I knew the structure for my inquiry. I pulled out my big journal and wrote down four very evocative questions that I had known for some time, but which I had never before realised were guides to uncovering a sense of purpose:
What's unfinished for me to give?
What's unfinished for me to heal?
What's unfinished for me to learn?
What's unfinished for me to experience?
It is through exploring these questions that the constellation called purpose began to be revealed.
Life is never finished, and there is a beauty in the acceptance of this deep
truth. We always have more to give, more to heal, more to learn and more to experience.
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