By Lowri Dowthwaite — 2018
Unlike feeling happy, which is a transient state, leading a happier life is about individual growth through finding meaning.
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Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.
Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “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.”
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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.
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Former monk Jay Shetty reveals a dozen ways to achieve a more fulfilling, happy and meaningful day-to-day life.
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Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
Pleasure can be a boon or a burden, depending on our relationship to it. It can leaven laborious days, or lead us to waste them. The pleasures of a mild stimulant such as caffeine can be harmless or even beneficial, but the pleasures of amphetamines can be deadly.
Understanding the difference between a spiritual crisis and a mental illness is important to get to the root of the problem.
Spiritual “emergencies” require understanding from mental health professionals.