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The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.
John O'Donohue • Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong
the stories we tell ourselves
Natalie Audelo • 1 card
Life
Prashanth Narayan and • 183 cards
The latin word finis has two meanings: the end or the finish, and a goal to reach. A man who could not see the end of his “provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. He ceased living for the future, in contrast to a man in normal life.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi
... See moreits first meaning is no longer to be found in what it says, but in what it is.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
This ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man; in logotherapy, we speak in this context of a super-meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Ethan Kross, a psychologist and the director of the University of Michigan Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory, says,
“We’re constantly trying to make meaning out of our experiences, and our mind is flexibly constructed to help us do so.”
Elaine Hilides • Stop Making Meaning Matter
paragon : the perfect example of something.
slipshod (adj) : a sloppy lack of precision.
concordance : an alphabetical list of all usages of a word in a corpus.
presumptuous : taking liberties and overstepping boundaries with assumpitons.