Do Humans Seek and Create Meaning (Part 4)?
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Article #918
It is through our perception and connection with all life that we can experience meaning and have a fulfilling life.

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Do Humans Seek and Create Meaning (Part 4)?
November 11, 2016 – 4:29 pm | No Comment
Do Humans Seek and Create Meaning (Part 4)?

Article #918
It is through our perception and connection with all life that we can experience meaning and have a fulfilling life.

Do Humans Seek and Create Meaning (Part 3)?
September 24, 2016 – 11:01 pm | No Comment
Do Humans Seek and Create Meaning (Part 3)?

Article #917
Humans seek meaning as a necessary means for survival. In part, people do this through their creative ability to rationalize. It may be considered that a part of seeking meaning has to do with maintaining consistency and inner balance at any cost. Sometimes individuals create the need to defend and rationalize decisions and actions, even if they are wrong. Seeking meaning is part of the process of inner and outer growth.

Passionate Detachment – Soul Freedom
February 12, 2015 – 3:02 am | No Comment
Passionate Detachment – Soul Freedom

Article #882
When you understand that you have control over nothing, your response can be despair or detachment. Passion acts with great enthusiasm, extraordinary intensity, and deep feelings. Detachment lets go of all concern for the results of the action.

Love — You’re Doing it Wrong
January 23, 2015 – 12:29 am | No Comment
Love — You’re Doing it Wrong

Post #871
Friday Video: TED Talk – In this delightful talk, philosopher Yann Dall’Aglio explores the universal search for tenderness and connection in a world that’s ever more focused on the individual.

Putting Stress on Stress: A Reaction to National Geographic’s Psychology of Stress
December 10, 2014 – 4:20 am | No Comment
Putting Stress on Stress: A Reaction to National Geographic’s Psychology of Stress

Article #847
This is my reaction to Nat Geo’s eye-opening documentary about stress. It follows a scientist’s research about stress, by first looking at how baboons experience stress. Then, he tried to look for similarities whether such animal experiences have affinities with the human experience of stress.

Why Does the Universe Exist?
September 19, 2014 – 12:32 am | No Comment
Why Does the Universe Exist?

Post #798
Friday Video: TED Talk – Why is there something instead of nothing? In other words: Why does the universe exist (and why are we in it)? Philosopher and writer Jim Holt follows this question toward three possible answers. Or four. Or none.

From Here To Eternity: You Only Live Twice
May 20, 2014 – 1:12 am | No Comment
From Here To Eternity: You Only Live Twice

Article #720
We’ve all heard the expression about dreaming one’s life away, but what if were literally true. That is, life really is but a dream; you don’t die and go to some kind of afterlife, assuming there’s an afterlife of course, but on your dream deathbed you actually awake and awake into a new really awake reality, which you can call an ‘afterlife’ if you wish.

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