Today's human wants to do things for themselves and experience self-discovery. They want to be told much less about what they should do. A far-reaching process of human emancipation from any external authority is taking place. Of course, it would also be possible to describe contrary tendencies. Every temporal development is accompanied by a premature eagerness to rush ahead and a tardy clinging to the old. The steadily progressing evolution can be perceived as too slow in uncertain, turbulent times and as too fast in calmer periods. In the course of human life, times of quieter tendencies alternate with those of greater upheaval. There are concrete conditions for today's individuals to navigate their personal life paths in a balanced flow that allows for an inner, steadily progressing development.