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Self: The key to fulfilment - #Day7 of #30DaysofCreativity

(If you have read my blog posts before today in the month of June 2011, you'll have noticed I've been putting up drawings for the 30 Days of Creativity . Today I have decided to creatively deviate and write an actual post :) ) Last weekend something clicked. On Saturday, The Fly Blog alerted me to a feature about fulfilment from The New York Times and the following particular sentence struck out to me: "Most of us are egotistical and most are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task. The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself. " Wow – I think I'd heard sentiments like that before, but it really struck a chord that day, I don't know why. And in church on Sunday, the minister assigned to direct our prayer points highlighted: "[Here in the UK] Next year, the Queen will have served the nation for SIXTY y...