Archive for the 'Meaning of Life' Category

We Are Alive
July 1, 2008

…[W]e are alive and that it is gift and privilege, not right. We must earn life once it has been awarded to us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. — Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
When was the last time you looked at the world around you [...]

Meaning vs. Happiness
June 27, 2008

Mr. Linderman: There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning.
Nathan Petrelli: I’d like to have both.
Mr. Linderman: Can’t be done. Two very different paths. To be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what [...]