Search for the Meaning of Life
Search for the Meaning of Life

Author: Willigis Jäger

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764811074

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This collection of gem-like reflections distills the most popular messages theauthor has delivered, along with responses from his hearers. He describes the basic routes by which people travel on their mystical quests, including controlled breathing, quiet sitting and reciting mantras--methods that lead to states of "non-thinking" that may produce lucid, even life-transforming insights.

The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life

Author: Nathanael Novosel

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781948220002

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"What is the meaning of life?" Throughout history, people have spent much of their lives trying to explain how the world works and why. Initially, they seek to live better lives and thrive. Ultimately, they seek to find purpose and significance in their existence. Experience the scientific and philosophical journey billions of years in the making to answer the question that all living beings capable of rational thought will ask themselves: why are we here? Over the course of that journey, you will come to understand how humans determine their meaning and, with some of your own analysis, discover your own purpose along the way.

The Unheard Cry for Meaning
The Unheard Cry for Meaning

Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1451664389

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In our age of depersonalization, Frankl teaches the value of living to the fullest. Upon his death in 1997, Viktor E. Frankl was lauded as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. The Unheard Cry for Meaning marked his return to the humanism that made Man's Search for Meaning a bestseller around the world. In these selected essays, written between 1947 and 1977, Dr. Frankl illustrates the vital importance of the human dimension in psychotherapy. Using a wide range of subjects—including sex, morality, modern literature, competitive athletics, and philosophy—he raises a lone voice against the pseudo-humanism that has invaded popular psychology and psychoanalysis. By exploring mankind's remarkable qualities, he brilliantly celebrates each individual's unique potential, while preserving the invaluable traditions of both Freudian analysis and behaviorism.

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

Author: James Hollis

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-05-05

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1101216697

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What does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we’ve made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck—commonly known as the “midlife crisis.” Jungian psycho-analyst James Hollis believes it is only in the second half of life that we can truly come to know who we are and thus create a life that has meaning. In Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Hollis explores the ways we can grow and evolve to fully become ourselves when the traditional roles of adulthood aren’t quite working for us, revealing a new way of uncovering and embracing our authentic selves. Offering wisdom to anyone facing a career that no longer seems fulfilling, a long-term relationship that has shifted, or family transitions that raise issues of aging and mortality, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life provides a reassuring message and a crucial bridge across this critical passage of adult development.

Exploring the Meaning of Life
Exploring the Meaning of Life

Author: Joshua W. Seachris

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0470658789

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Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity's search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers. Cutting-edge viewpoint features the most recent contributions to the debate Extensive general introduction offers unprecedented context Leading contemporary philosophers provide insightful introductions to each section

Journeys in the Search for the Meaning of Life. A story of those who have found it
Journeys in the Search for the Meaning of Life. A story of those who have found it

Author: Rami Bleckt

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 5040380607

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The author of this book is a person with the extraordinary fate. He gave professional consultations to thousands of people from all over the world, conducted seminars and workshops in many countries and travelled a lot. This is the reason that even for a minor character in this book we are faced with real people. A part of the described events the author experienced himself.The book contains neither religious nor political concept. This wonderful book of interesting people's realistic stories gives reader not only a pleasant way of spending time but teachers a great deal of useful things. Every person could practically find something important in it that would change his life for the best.

Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1541699092

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Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, explains the psychological tools that enabled him to survive the Holocaust Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man's Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. He expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: 'No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.' In Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.

What's It All About?
What's It All About?

Author: Julian Baggini

Publisher: Granta Publications

Published: 2013-07-11

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1847089208

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“Secular-minded readers seeking an alternative to The Purpose-Driven Life have an excellent starting point here.”—Publishers Weekly For readers who are serious about confronting the big issues in life—but are turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality, or psychobabble, this is an honest, intelligent discussion by a philosopher that doesn't hide from the difficulties or make undeliverable promises. It aims to help the reader understand the overlooked issues behind the obvious questions, and shows how philosophy does not so much answer them as help provide us with the resources to answer them for ourselves. “Useful and provocative.”—The Wall Street Journal “Looking for a clear guide to what contemporary philosophy has to say about the meaning of life? Baggini takes us through all the plausible answers, weaving together Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, Monty Python, and Funkadelic in an entertaining but always carefully reasoned discussion.”—Peter Singer, author of How Are We To Live “The question of the meaning of life has long been a byword for pretentious rambling. It takes some nerve to tackle it in a brisk and no-nonsense fashion.”—New Statesman

My Search For the Meaning To Life
My Search For the Meaning To Life

Author: Lorene Graham

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 168213069X

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Ecclesiastes 1:2-5, "Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher, vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, all is vanity - emptiness, falsity and vainglory. What profit has man left of all his toil at which he toils under the sun? (Is life worth living?) One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun also rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises." These scriptures depict what life is like when we do not k

Movies and the Meaning of Life
Movies and the Meaning of Life

Author: Kimberly A. Blessing

Publisher: Open Court

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0812698746

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"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions," said the existentiallist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered:"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" "Movies and the Meaning of Life" looks at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions: What is reality and how can I know it? (The Truman Show, Contact, Waking Life); How do I find myself and my true identity? (Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Memento); How do I find meaning from my interactions with others? (Pulp Fiction, Shadowlands, Chasing Amy); What is the chief purpose in life? (American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, The Shawshank Redemption); and How ought I live my life? (Pleasantville, Spiderman, Minority Report, Groundhog Day).