What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

by James Hollis

We are not here to be comfortable, although that is the banal blandishment offered by modern materialism, pop psychologies and theologies,36 and the sundry seductions of addiction and distraction. “In the end, I taught you to be more comfortable in your uncertainty. This acceptance of ambiguity will better lead you to a more developmental agenda, a mystery-driven life, than ‘certainty’ ever would.”