A Commonplace Book

Category: meaningfulness...

  • deciphering the meaning of a whale song
  • avoiding investing events with power or meaning they don't have
  • meaningful, lasting rewards - going on adventures, passion for our work, making discoveries, creating, integrating the many diverse experiences of life
  • contemplating the deeper meaning of words and seeking a meaningful mantra or affirmation
  • practice mindful breathing so that the time doing mundane activities is pleasant and meaningful
  • highlighting and underlining passages in your books that are meaningful to you
  • using meaningful, right speech
  • Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. (Louis Aragon)
  • Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others-into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future. (Gerda Lerner)
  • The aspirations of most people - security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits - are to be supported. (I. Klepfisz)

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