lifestyle
- Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.from Daily Review | Readwise
Eli added 13d ago
It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
from Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Eli added 1mo ago
- Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
What if rich did not have to mean wealthy, and whole did not have to mean healed? What if being people of “the gospel” meant that we are simply people with good news? God is here. We are loved. It is enough.from Daily Review | Readwise
Eli added 1mo ago
Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.
from Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly
Eli added 1mo ago
- There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose
from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan
Eli added 1mo ago
- 101 Additional Advices
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.from Daily Review | Readwise
Eli added 1mo ago
- Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that person also has to learn that the experience is a viable treatment for whatever ails them psychologically.
from Daily Review | Readwise
Eli added 1mo ago
Irresistible -Adam Alter
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.
from Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr
Eli added 1mo ago
- “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Livingfrom Joseph Campbell Quotes (Author of The Power of Myth)
Eli added 1mo ago