Creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD is a leading expert on meaning, and has written more than 30 books, including The Van Gogh Blues.
The Brain Fitness for Seniors blog has a quick summary:
1. Meaning, Identity and Purpose Are Not Fixed. They naturally shift and change throughout life. A lot of our suffering over lack of meaning [...]
“Saying what you want while holding energy against it doesn’t work. That is what most of us are doing with the Universe. We’re giving it conflicting directions.
“It’s like a director saying to me ‘cross stage left but don’t move.’ I’m stuck. I can’t complete both directions because they cancel each other out.”
Dee Wallace in our [...]
“What we are looking for on earth and in earth and in our lives is the process that can unlock for us the mystery of meaningfulness in our daily lives.
“It has been the best kept secret down through the ages because it is so simple. Truly, the last place it would ever occur to most [...]
Gina Trapani is a “Blogger and software developer. Commander in Chief of my one-woman army.” (@ginatrapani profile)
In a New York Times interview, she talks about work and purpose, among other topics.
Q. You work at the intersection of good work habits and psychology or self-awareness. What’s a tip-off that a time management or productivity problem might [...]
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it.
“Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”
Michelle Obama – [...]
By Laura Berman Fortgang, Author of The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create It.
From her article On Meaning: The Silver Lining of The Recession.
Human beings have often engaged in the search for meaning, but today’s economic downturn has brought the subject to light in a new way.
People are re-evaluating whether [...]
George Vaillant, MD, author of a number of books including Spiritual Evolution, notes in his Positive Psychology News Daily article, “If we are to find meaning in life, we must pay as much mind to our limbic ‘hearts’ as to our neocortical cognitions.
“Our positive emotions evoke thought-action tendencies in humans that broaden human attachment to [...]
Criticism saps our passion for life
“Certain basic doubts keep Colin from enjoying a truly comfortable sense of superiority.”
In a series of podcasts adapted from his book Toxic Criticism, Eric Maisel, PhD talks about how “criticism and self-criticism interfere with our ability to find our life purpose and live as strongly, passionately, and effectively as we [...]
Diane Dreher, author of Your Personal Renaissance: 12 Steps to Finding Your Life’s True Calling, writes about the process:
“Seeking your calling is a process of discovery that continues throughout your life, informed by your questions, your conflicts, and your deepest dreams.
“It is the journey known by many names, from Homer’s Odyssey to the pilgrimage in [...]
Jim White, Ph.D. is author of What’s My Purpose? A Journey of Personal and Professional Growth. In an article on his blog, he writes about exploring our talents as a way to understand our life purpose. Here is an excerpt:
How talents and purpose relate
You can make an assessment of your abilities in order to help [...]
Oliver Wendell Holmes said that “most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.”
The whole purpose and mission of Healthy Wealthy nWise magazine is about helping people begin to find ways to release what Elizabeth Browning called the ‘imprisoned splendor.’
Not to take your music with you; to do that which [...]
