{"id":1201,"date":"2020-01-03T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:17:19","slug":"do-not-find-meaning-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/do-not-find-meaning-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Find Meaning in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead, do what makes you come alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Jr. was inspired by theologian Howard Thurman. He said,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201dDon’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

~Howard Thurman, <\/span><\/p>\n

The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So the real question is one that we need to ask ourselves, \u201dwhat makes me come alive?<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no right answers, but there are real answers. All of us need to cross invisible thresholds towards a new frontier, leaving behind old meanings, and into the existential page of creating *new* meaning. New meaning arises when we embrace the forms of vitality in life where we become fully alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“People say that we are seeking a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

~ Joseph Campbell, <\/span><\/p>\n

from the Power of Myth<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Life is too fleeting to be walking around deaden or beaten out of our true vocation in this pilgrimage, which is to be fully alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

When death finds you and I, may it find us alive.*<\/span><\/p>\n

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Footnote: <\/span><\/em><\/span>
\n* adapted from an African proverb.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[125,90,35],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-come-alive","tag-meaning","tag-reflections","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}