What’s the meaning of it all?
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
Joseph Campbell
The one thing you can’t escape in your life is yourself. Anyone who’s traveled long enough knows this. It’s eventually clear we carry with us on the road more baggage than just our suitcase and our backpacks. Emerson, who in his own life traveled to England and Italy and France and Malta and Switzerland (as well as extensively across America), poin
... See moreRyan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
Consider how much time you spend thinking—in even the subtlest way, in the back of the simulator—about what others think of you. Be mindful of doing things to get admiration and praise. Try to focus instead on just doing the best you can. Think about virtue, benevolence, and wisdom: if you sincerely keep trying to come from these, that’s about all
... See moreRick Hanson • Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Denn gerade ihnen steht der R ückzug aus der schrecklichen Umwelt und die Einkehr in ein Reich geistiger Freiheit und inneren Reichtums offen. So und nur so ist die Paradoxie zu verstehen, daß manchmal die zarter Konstituierten das Lagerleben besser überstehen konnten als die robusteren Naturen.
Frankl, Viktor E. • ... Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen
One of the greatest tragedies of modern technology is entire generations afraid to sit with their own thoughts.
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between... See more
There is no reason the world must stay this way, the internet has already rebirthed some informal skill transfer that once existed. This constitutes a beautiful reawakening of meaningful work for anyone interested, and is one of the most significant changes from prior decades. For that matter there might be more tools than ever for clever parents t... See more
Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource is Agency
What we make of our life—the sum total of thoughts, emotions, words, and actions that fill the brief interval between birth and death—is our one great creative masterpiece. The beauty and significance of a life well lived consists not in the works we leave behind, or in what history has to say about us. It comes from the quality of conscious experi
... See moreCuladasa John Yates • The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”