By Carolyn Baker — 2016
Will we spend the rest of our days either dining on doom or drowning in denial or feast on what lights us up?
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Happiness is fleeting but meaning is forever.
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You’ve got to have a purpose that you are passionate about. If you don’t have a purpose, then your purpose is to get a purpose. If you do not have goals, then your goal is to set a goal.
“What am I meant to learn from this situation? What’s life trying to teach me here?” Questions like those help me find meaning in apparently meaningless situations.
The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.
In one school of popular reasoning, people judge historical outcomes that they think are favorable as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities. The argument appears in some of the most inappropriate contexts, such as discussions of slavery or the Holocaust.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
As I travel around the globe speaking and training, I have consistently found that most people ask me the same question, “How do I discover my purpose in life?”
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