Purpose Of Life

Essentially, ikigai is the reason why you get up in the morning What does ikigai mean? Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your ‘reason for being. ‘ ‘Iki’ in Japanese means ‘life,’ and ‘gai’ describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. …

There was a time when I had lost interest in everything. I had been drinking enough booze to kill a horse. I was smoking enough cigarettes to start a bonfire in my backyard. I was eating enough hamburgers to feed an African village, and I was 40 pounds overweight. I…

As an avid reader and an online community builder, I read as many books as possible about online communities when they come out since this is a relatively new field. When I discovered that the founder of Mighty Networks, Gina Bianchini, was coming out with her first book, I ordered…

If you do not have a relationship with your Creator, then your soul eternally will seek something to fill the emptiness of your heart. All of the wealth and material goods of this world never will fill the void, the emptiness, the gap of your vacant soul. Your happiness is…

If we were to successfully map a human connectome, would all my memories, knowledge, values and conditionings be replicated? Would I want to transfer my consciousness to the cloud? Is my consciousness effectively just my mind with all the intricate thought patterns and philosophical rhetorics inflated into a mystified entity? …

This week, Sunday Reflections brings you select quotes by Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, holocaust survivor and author: “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find…