By Parker Palmer — 2018
The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.
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The process to uncover your purpose after a career in military service takes great introspection.
Our treatment of troops returning from combat has led to a culture of permanent disability. They deserve better.
On the heels of America’s longest war, a new PBS documentary series sits down with nearly 50 veterans in hopes of helping to bridge a growing gap.
Happiness has little to do with it. Research suggests meaning in your life is important for well-being.
Many of the mornings on many of the days in the lives of many of the people on this planet, it’s not very easy to find a very good reason to throw back the covers and get out of bed.
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Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the question, what is meaning?
People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
Jay Shetty is focused on helping people pursue what's meaningful rather than what “makes sense.”
As humans we are meaning making machines. We have the capacity to reflect on life, to shape our lives consciously. We can be aware of every waking moment and what we are creating in it. We can live our Lives on Purpose, with Passion, in Peace.
What life demands of us changes somewhere along the way. The second half of the journey is when we truly become grown-up—and must own up to responsibility for the way things are turning out.