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Role Models and the Society of True Seekers

// October 18th, 2005 // Leadership Development, My Personal Journey

In recent contemplations I’ve been considering the nature of role models. We seem to search the character of our heroes or role models, scanning potentials and marking where they meet and fail to meet the ideals in our mind. This search has become more conscious for me recently, I find myself collecting a list of “almost”; people who certainly have some of the most important factors of the ideal I’m searching for but who are lacking in others. The group is rather impressive but I notice feeling that there is some kind of gap or combination lacking between them. I now realize that this gap is in fact where your self-image ideal lies. We may find hint of it as we search the faces of those who have gone before, but we will only know its fullness when we face our greater self directly.

Einstein said “Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time”.

This idea resonates strongly with me. A community of the mind and the journey. One that does not meet in space or time, but is perhaps supported by the knowledge that we do not walk this way alone.

It is as part of this society that I imagine my heroes- those I hold closest to my heart. They are quite diverse individuals who lived this search for truth and each contributed much of their discovery to the greater good of our humanity. I shall write upon each of them at length, but for this post I shall merely name the four; Albert Einstein, Herman Hesse, Kahlil Gibran and Bill Hicks. It is our loss that they have past on, and our luck that there is so much to remember.