How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life
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How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life
I reread the work of my friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who’d died a few months earlier. She’d once written, “For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info u need.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Way, or the intentional path to doing what you love.
Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing” – The Marginalian
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Taken together, Jung’s ideas about happiness and his five pillars of well-being stand up solidly to modern research findings. I propose this practical seven-point summary:
... See more1. Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.
2. Manage as best you can the main sources of misery in your life by attending to
Devotion to Inquisitiveness I believe that curiosity is the secret. Curiosity is the truth and the way of creative living. Curiosity is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Furthermore, curiosity is accessible to everyone. Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times—a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and
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