A quote from The Power of Myth
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A quote from The Power of Myth
In truth I am done. I could go home now and be happy. I hear Joseph Campbell: “People are not looking for the meaning of life, they are looking for the feeling of being alive.” If that was it, I had found
Boyd Varty • The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minu... See more
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during
... See moreViktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
What if life is like a story and you and I are in the theater of our own minds, looking out the cameras of our eyes, and the story unfolding feels either meaningful or meaningless based on what we decide to make happen in it? And what if, if we trust fate to write our stories, it feels meaningless, but if we accept our own agency and structure our
... See moreDonald Miller • Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life
Life lived for the sake of experience is a half-life, tense, insecure, lonely, and unfulfilled. Your experience cannot fulfill you because as soon as it comes it is already gone,