172 quotes found
“Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fact, like sunlight. At other times it's as meaningless and futile as the wind. We accept this ecli...”
“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two "hungers". There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the grea...”
“I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, after all.I could have flutteredfrom another nestor crawled bescaledfrom under another tree.Nature...”
“When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a t...”
“(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.”
“A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.”
“Time is measured in meaning”
“The beautiful truth about service is that we are afforded countless opportunities to be its vehicle. Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. From simply letting someone into your...”
“The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light.”
“While we all share God's powerful DNA, we're also individual expressions of God. Meaning, there's no one else quite like you. So set the intention now to become clear on exactly what strengths and ...”
“As I approach a new project, my process always begins with the question: what is it about? Heres one answer that might apply to a Star Trek movie... I want it to be about the most horrible, treache...”
“...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?”
“Ignorance is sacred and im an atheist.”
“He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.”
“Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry that we are becoming stupider, an begin to wonder if getting an ...”
“Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?”
“What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me...”
“Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.”
“What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within ones own psyche?”
“To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.”
