Finding Meaning
what gives our life meaning, etc..
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Finding Meaning
We notice in the world today a global plague of restlessness-a search for meaning, for something to believe in. We are all increasingly self-absorbed and made miserable by this, but we don't understand why or how to get out of this trap. The Sublime is an experience that lifts us out of ourselves, that confronts us with ultimate mysteries (like... See more
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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
People are happy enough rich, and people are happy enough poor. But it’s hard to imagine anyone happy without a feeling that their actions have some impact, however small. Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista. The prisoner, though largely robbed of power, is probably happier if he can vex... See more
Sasha Chapin • What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
EXISTENTIAL OPENING The philosopher Andrew Taggart believes that crisis moments lead to “existential openings” that force us to grapple with the deepest questions about life.10 He argues there are two typical ways this happens. One is the “way of loss,” when things that matter are taken from us, such as loved ones, our health, or a job. The other
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
We desire escape from the limited capacities of our material bodies. We yearn for some kind of permanence, something eternal, something beyond our impending personal death. A world in which miracles occur might contain such a possibility.
Alan Lightman • Where Science and Miracles Meet
What makes life worth living according to Bertrand Russell