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- The Story of Life. Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.
- An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose. The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.
- The Starfish Story. An old man walked across the beach until he came across a young boy throwing something into the breaking waves. Upon closer inspection, the old man could see that the boy was tossing stranded starfish from the sandy beach, back into the ocean.
- The Seasons of Life. There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
Excerpt: The Egg by Andy Weir is an incredibly profound and thought-provoking short story about interconnectedness, oneness, and the meaning of life and death. A must read for anybody who is curious about why we might be here and what this experience of life might be all about.
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl. At the top of my list (and many others of its kind) is Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (Frankl, 1946, 2004).
- Of Human Freedom – Epictetus. Like the other philosophers of the Stoa, the former Greek slave Epictetus (c. 55–135 C.E.) strongly believed that we can control our feelings by controlling our thoughts.
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living – Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Tibetan Dalai Lama, has cowritten a bestselling self-help book entitled The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living with the psychiatrist Howard C. Cutler (2009).
- The Happiness Trap – Russ Harris. The Australian psychologist Russ Harris (2008) challenges the idea that the meaning of life is to chase happiness. He believes that the current Western conceptions of happiness are entirely counterproductive.
- Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade, et al. | 5.00. Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.
- When Breath Becomes Air. Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese | 4.49. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
- Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind. Yuval Noah Harari | 4.48. 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us.
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom | 4.46. From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 2010
- “You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation.
- “The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other.
- “How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering?
- “If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.”
Feb 21, 2018 · This is a list of the books on the meaning of life that I recommend. For more information click one of the links below. (Books that particularly influenced me. ** ) • Julian Baggani ~ What’s It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life. • Julian Barnes ~ Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
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Meaning Of Life Quotes. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso. Inspirational, Life, Inspiring. 287 Copy quote. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell.
