By Emily Esfahani Smith — 2017
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
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Happiness has little to do with it. Research suggests meaning in your life is important for well-being.
Many of the mornings on many of the days in the lives of many of the people on this planet, it’s not very easy to find a very good reason to throw back the covers and get out of bed.
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“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”
There is a deep connection between meaning and beauty,” says Rachel Naomi Remen. “Neither is a function of the intellect, both can enrich a life, and perhaps we develop an eye for meaning in the same way that we develop an eye for beauty.”
Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the question, what is meaning?
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.
Former monk Jay Shetty reveals a dozen ways to achieve a more fulfilling, happy and meaningful day-to-day life.
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Will we spend the rest of our days either dining on doom or drowning in denial or feast on what lights us up?
Jay Shetty is focused on helping people pursue what's meaningful rather than what “makes sense.”
If you could do one thing to transform your life, I would highly recommend it be to find something you’re passionate about, and do it for a living.