Bernardo

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

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What if purpose isn’t something we find , but something we participate in ? Meaning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It is shaped in relation, through the push and pull of being with others, through showing up, through being witnessed, through witnessing. A life of meaning is not self-contained. It is interwoven.

How Franzen Tells Stories

"I'm looking for a sentence that describes a problem for the character. And ideally, when you read that sentence, it makes you laugh.

So I'm looking for a comic problem. It doesn't need to be a big problem. It doesn't have to be "the nuclear launch codes have been stolen and you need to get them back."

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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” https://t.co/UyUmgeVlxo

The whole page is one huge banger https://t.co/nLrQX6xrza