Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Kory Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about the difference between being whole and good.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. I'm going to Okay, so there's a great Carl Young quote where he says,

I'd rather be whole than good.

I'd rather be whole than good.

There's something about this that has resonated with me ever since I saw it.

I feel much more compelled by the pursuit or the practice or the embodiment of

wholeness rather than the pursuit of being good and it's not because I'm not

interested in being good. And it's not because I'm not interested in being good or cultivating goodness.

I just think there is a lot of bypassing of our internal experience, our shadows aspects of ourselves when we prematurely try to play nice or

prematurely try to present ourselves in a way that we perceive to be good.

You know, good, the idea of good is an interesting thing.

Whose idea is it? Is it yours? Is it coming from your

heart of what you perceive to be good and to stand for goodness and to offer goodness?

Is it your parents' perspective?

Is it a mentors perspective?

A friend's perspective?

Your community's perspective.

The global culture's perspective.

You can get really complicated.

And most of our ideas of being good,

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