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How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death

By Emily Esfahani Smith — 2017

The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”

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Caroline Shola Arewa: The Meaning of Life – Embracing Purpose, Passion and Peace

As humans we are meaning making machines. We have the capacity to reflect on life, to shape our lives consciously. We can be aware of every waking moment and what we are creating in it. We can live our Lives on Purpose, with Passion, in Peace.

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Excellence Reporter
2016
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Choose Meaning Over Happiness

Happiness is fleeting but meaning is forever.

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James Hollis
2018
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An Interview with Mark Victor Hansen on Achieving a Successful and Meaningful Life

You’ve got to have a purpose that you are passionate about. If you don’t have a purpose, then your purpose is to get a purpose. If you do not have goals, then your goal is to set a goal.

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Dennis Hughes
2003
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Looking for the Teachable Moments

“What am I meant to learn from this situation? What’s life trying to teach me here?” Questions like those help me find meaning in apparently meaningless situations.

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Parker J. Palmer
2015
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Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance

The author of On the Brink of Everything finds inspiration in nature’s cycles of death and renewal.

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Parker Palmer
2018
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times

In one school of popular reasoning, people judge historical outcomes that they think are favorable as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities. The argument appears in some of the most inappropriate contexts, such as discussions of slavery or the Holocaust.

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Josh Jones
2017
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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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Maria Popova
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3 Keys to Living the Life You Want

As I travel around the globe speaking and training, I have consistently found that most people ask me the same question, “How do I discover my purpose in life?”

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Jean Houston
2013
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