A Lesson About Happiness From A Holocaust Survivor. "It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
" In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished -- but he, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers declared to the class, "Life is nothing more than a combustion process, a process of oxidation. " Frankl jumped out of his chair and responded, "Sir, if this is so, then what can be the meaning of life?
" Viktor Frankl [Herwig Prammer/Reuters] Peter Andrews/Reuters. The Three Qualities of People I Most Enjoy Working With. - Meaningful videos. 7 Stages to Finding Your Passion by Gail Straub. 21 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Maya Angelou. “I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better” ~ Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, the award-winning writer, poet, actress and civil rights activist, left this world today, leaving behind her beautiful work, the love and wisdom she has shared with so many of us.
Her departure reminded me that nothing in this world lasts forever. And if we want to live a beautiful, happy and loving life we have to do it here and now. We have to start living the life we want to be living today not tomorrow nor the day after tomorrow. Because we never know when our time will come. Enjoy. 1. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. 2. “If you don’t like something, change it. 3. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~ Maya Angelou 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
“Love life. The Process for Awakening. 08 Nov 2013 November 8, 2013 Ram Dass talks about the process of using your life experiences as a vehicle for awakening. You sit with the process in yourself so that you see yourself get stuck, and then you see yourself come up for air, and you begin to notice where you are clinging… In order for us to be able to make these teachings available to everyone, we need your support. As Ram Dass says, “When you see the Beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.” For a one-time donation, please use the donation form below: 8 ways to build a business with a higher purpose. Much has been written and said about building sustainable companies and organizations.
Yet too often, after all the conferences, books and articles, little is done. The big ideas get downsized and bureaucratized. In the past decade, the two of us have worked with hundreds of new ventures and dozens of non-profits and big companies, all with designs on changing the world through new technologies or new business models. We love working with entrepreneurs that see something that needs changing, and that will marshall the team and resources to build organizations with impact. It has reinforced our belief that business is a key force to make the world a better place -- and that business, done well, provides better products to customers, better work for employees, better performance for owners and better communities for all of us.
To do this, businesses need to aim at a higher purpose -- to improve the conditions on our planet. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Illustration by mbeo via Flickr.