Daily Inspiration Quote by Eileen Caddy

In an era that trained people to think in categories - believer or skeptic, productive or disposable, normal or broken - Eileen Caddy’s line plants a flag in stubborn individuality. “A human being is a single being” sounds almost child-simple, but that repetition (“being” twice) is doing quiet work: it forces you to slow down and feel the personhood in the phrase, not just the concept of “human.” Then she seals it with a harder clause: “Unique and unrepeatable.” Not special in the Instagram sense. Ontologically irreplaceable.

Caddy’s intent is devotional more than philosophical. As a New Age figure and co-founder of the Findhorn community, she’s speaking to a spiritual hunger for worth that isn’t earned through status, achievement, or conformity. The subtext pushes against systems that treat people as interchangeable units - the workplace, the state, even polite social life. If each person is “unrepeatable,” then loss isn’t abstract, and harm isn’t bureaucratic. You can’t shrug off cruelty as collateral.

The line also carries a gentle rebuke to self-erasure. It’s addressed as much to the person who feels insignificant as to the one who reduces others to labels. In the late 20th century’s swirl of mass media and mass movements, Caddy offers a compact counterspell: you are not a type. You are not replaceable. That’s comforting, yes - but it’s also a demand. If you’re singular, you’re responsible for living like it.