This video will help you “own your motive”. The idea here is to recognize that in choosing to do something for someone else we are choosing to do something for ourselves. This video reinforces one of the key existential rehab ideas that “compassion is self-care.”

We have to understand the jungle that we are in. In this video, we learn from Hermann Hesse. Hesse, in his novels, hides dark, dialectical truths about the world we live in. Here's what he says in "Beneath the Wheel," on the topic of civilization and education...

Thrownness is a sense of "being thrown" into this world, into this existence. A kind of abandonment, estrangement, alienation amidst the world's "benign indifference." This "indifference" is but a shadow of "thrownness." As such, it is forgivable. Radical compassion is a key skill of existentially vibrant living.