Where to look when you are… searching for purpose

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[Javits Wild] When he was in the country, he always asked the people he chanced to meet what "normal life" was like, because he had forgotten. The answers varied, and he gradually came to realize that, even when he was surrounded by other people, he was absolutely alone in the world. He decided to draw up a list of what constituted normal attitudes and behavior, based on what people did rather than on what they said.

Paulo Coelho | The Winner Stands Alone

Normal is anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
Spending years studying at university only to find at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

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You don't have to know the meaning of life to enjoy it fully

101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting: How to Make Your Life More Enjoyable Day-by-Day, Year-by-Year by Ernie Zelinski

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In the same vein, having the absolute understanding of life - if there ever be one - would undoubtedly make life less enjoyable. Richard Bach in Illusions wrote, "Learn what the magician knows and it's not magic anymore." Not to mention that desperately contemplating the meaning of life can lead to stress, ulcers, high blood pressure, and a lack of success. At the extreme, people frantically searching for the meaning of life have been know to commit suicide.

Even if you discover the absolute meaning of life, you may realize that it doesn't really make any difference to the quality of your existence anyway. Your answer may be that ultimately life is pretty meaningless, that we are all insignificant grains of dust in the grand cosmic scheme of things, that we are all leading random lives, that our existence doesn't affect anything or anyone.

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October 20th: Marks of the good life

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

You have proof in the extent of your wanderings that you never found the art of living anywhere — not in logic, nor in wealth, fame, or in any indulgence. Nowhere. Where is it then? In doing what human nature demands. How is a person to do this? By having principles be the source of desire and action. What principles? Those to do with good and evil, indeed in the belief that there is no good for a human being except what creates justice, self- control, courage and freedom, and nothing evil except what destroys these things. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.1.(5)

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