Today I was reading Thomas Troward's "The Creative Process in the Individual" (below) and came across this paragraph, something which seems highly relatable to that of my own project, again talking about self expectation and success - even if we are successful in our conditions and fortunes, our self expectation may be higher and even then our lives will not be good enough. What then will we do? Lower our expectation or thrive to be more successful? And it is in the process that we may have feelings of doubt and worry, but for what? Better conditions?
"Well, the general direction in which we all want to go is that of getting more out of life than we have ever got out of it - we want to be more alive in ourselves and to get all sorts of improved conditions in our environment. However happily any of us may be circumstanced we can all conceive something still better, or at any rate we should like to make our present good permanent; and since we shall find as our studies advance that the prospect of increasing possibilities keeps opening out more and more widely before us, we may say that what we are in search for is the secret of getting more out of life in a continually progressive degree. This means that what we are looking for is something personal, and that it is to be obtained by producing conditions which do not yet exist, in other words nothing less than the exercise of a certain creative power in the sphere of our own particular world."
Getting more out of life in a continually progressive degree, when would it finish? Do we then mark our own fulfilment, tick the boxes as we have achieved and succeeded? Would there be an end?
Condition seems like a possible title to his project?
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