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TEDxnasa - Mitch Albom - 11/20/09

By Mitch Albom — 2009

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Mitch Albom - Creating Space to Make a Difference

20:23 min

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.

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.

Parker J. Palmer

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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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.

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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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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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams: Reflections on American Ideals

Finding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism.

Don Hanlon Johnson

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

In Love Wins, bestselling author, international teacher, and speaker Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis, Drops Like Stars) addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith—hell and the afterlife—arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever? Rob Bell is an electrifying,...

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The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings.

Eben Alexander, Ptolemy Tompkins

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B.

William B. Irvine

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