How Good Life is a Journey, not a Destination, and How to Choose our Direction

“The good life is not any fixed state” writes Carl Rogers in his famous book ‘On Becoming a Person‘.

“It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirvana, or happiness. It is not a condition in which the individual is adjusted, or fulfilled, or actualized. To use psychological terms, it is not a state of drive-reduction, or tension-reduction, or homeostasis.

The good life is a process, not a state of being.

It is a direction, not a destination.”

If life is a never-ending journey, how do we know which direction we need to go? Luckily, Carl Rogers gives us a clue: we need to listen to ourselves! “The direction which constitutes the good life is that which is selected by the total organism, when there is psychological freedom to move in any direction.”

Listen to yourselves, hit the direction you care about. I wish you a great journey, a great ‘good life’!