By Diane Covington — 2007
An interview with John O’Donohue on the secret landscapes of imagination and spirit
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On May 20, 1990, Bill Watterson, creator of the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, took the podium at Kenyon College — the same stage David Foster Wallace would occupy 15 years later to deliver his memorable commencement address — and gave the graduating class a gift of equally remarkable insight...
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The process to uncover your purpose after a career in military service takes great introspection.
We look at the word “purpose” as something we go on a 10 year quest for … searching under rocks, climbing up mountains, and crossing over seas. We’re exhausting ourselves mentally, emotionally, and physically running after it. But, what if it was already on you?
As simple as it sounds, having a strong "why" behind your business is an essential ingredient for becoming a successful entrepreneur.
As we peer around the corner of the pandemic, let’s talk about what we want to do—and not do—with the rest of our lives.
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Selfhood and relationships are the two poles of one single fact. Birth demands of us that we come to know ourselves, what we are. But it calls upon us also to seek to discover the why of our existence; this discovery can never come to us fully except through human relationships.
Author Dan Millman writes that just as we can divide the points on a compass into four directions and the days of the year into four seasons, we can give order and structure to our life experience by looking at it through a filter of four purposes.