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Finding Direction When You’re Feeling Lost

By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries — 2021

At a certain point in life, people transition from “time to live” to “time left to live.” This shift creates a new sense of urgency about identifying the purpose of our existence. And as people confront this challenge, they come up against a set of fundamental human needs that collectively define how we experience the meaning of our existence: belonging, purpose, competence, control, and transcendence. Thinking about these five pillars of meaning can help you reinvent your life.

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If You Feel Lost in Life - Watch This

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How I Stay Happy... | Russell Brand

I talk through my experiences with pleasure and the pursuit of meaning and why it's so hard to let go of the idea of happiness through gaining things. How can we be happy?

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Viktor Frankl: Our Need for Meaning and Purpose

In this TV interview from 1972, Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” explains the question of meaning and the central role it plays in his Logo therapy.

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Search for Meaning in Life Today with Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl’s theory and therapy grew out of his experiences in Nazi death camps. He saw that people who had hopes of being reunited with loved ones or who had projects they felt a need to complete or who had great faith, tended to have better chances than those who had lost all hope.

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Living with Meaning, Purpose, and Wisdom in the Digital Age

Eckhart Tolle stops by Google for a fireside chat with Bradley Horowitz. The subject is: "Living with Meaning, Purpose and Wisdom in the Digital Age."

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Martin Luther King, Jr., “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?”

Rarely seen footage of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, where he delivered his speech “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?”

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Michael Bernard Beckwith’s Prayer for When You’re Feeling Stuck | Super Soul Sunday | OWN

Spiritual pioneer Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith shares a simple yet powerful prayer that can help you transcend your problems.

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How Mindfulness Changes the Emotional Life of Our Brains | Richard J. Davidson | TEDxSanFrancisco

“Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life’s slings and arrows and others more resilient?” In this eye-opening talk, Richard Davidson discusses how mindfulness can improve well-being and outlines strategies to boost four components of a healthy mind: awareness, connection,...

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How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

We all long to experience a sense of inner wholeness and guidance, but today's notions of healing and recovery too often keep us focused on our brokenness, on our deficiencies rather than our strengths.

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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna.

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Finding Meaning