Finding Meaning
what gives our life meaning, etc..
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Finding Meaning
I was single for all of my 20s and half of my 30s, so Valentine’s Day will always make me think of my friends. (Just please don’t make me say ’Galentine’s Day.’) | Tag a bestie, duh.
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instagram.comAll these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live... See more
Zach Baron • Martin Scorsese: “I Have to Find Out Who the Hell I Am”
“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
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.
Israa Nasir • A good life is inconvenient.
The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down - The New York Times
By David MarchesePhotograph by Mamadi Doumbouyanytimes.com
This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else’s
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
River Kenna • Tweet
"Young people run around searching for identity, but it isn’t handed out free anymore — not in this transient, rootless, pluralistic society. Your identity is what you’ve committed yourself to."