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The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

February 03, 2025 • Kgaugelo Habyane • Season 5 • Episode 1

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The first episode for 2025 is inspired by Ms Lauryn Hill's Motives and Thoughts, The Trial of Socrates and some of Carl Jung's shadow work. As we go into this transition period (our last pefect square year was 89 years ago in 1939) with a sense of newness about ourselves and the world around us, it's important to check in with ourselves and explore through personal reflection and conversation with others whether our ways of being are still relevant and aligned to the people we are becoming.

Socrates once said "the unexamined life is not worth living" which to me also translates to the well known saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" while i'm not encouraging anyone to abandon their comfortable life or spend days on end analysing every detail of their life, I do however share this as a call to action to remind myself and those on the journey that as we grow and our work and influence in the world grows we have to be mindful of our motives and live an authentic, generative and undivided life.

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The Trial of Socrates

Ms Lauryn Hill - Motives and Thoughts

The Essential Guide To Shadow Work

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