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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ... “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ...
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” ... “Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you ...
The original clipping appeared in the May 28, 1941, public notices section: "Mother--God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, courage to change things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Goodby." [37] AA's co-founder Bill W. and the staff liked the prayer and had it printed in modified form and handed around.
Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία) is a classical Greek word consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well-being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune). Thus understood, the happy life is the good life, that is, a life in which a person fulfills human nature in an excellent way. [192]
The Torah commands us to be a blessing. Becoming a blessing means living in a way when others viewing our actions will experience more beauty, more meaning, more sacredness in God’s world.
So viewed, value judgments are tools for discovering how to live a better life, just as scientific hypotheses are tools for uncovering new information about the world. [10] In brief, Dewey rejects the traditional belief that judging things as good in themselves, apart from existing means-end relations, can be rational. The sole rational ...
Becoming a Christian means a change to a different way of life with a different purpose. Fulfilling this purpose and experiencing abundant life go together, as described by Matthew 6:33, "But seek you first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." [20]
Keith Ansell-Pearson received this work as "a tour de force that engages the history of philosophy, religion, and thought, both Western and Eastern, in ways that make you think deeply about the evolution of the human being these past few thousand years. As if this weren’t already enough, Sloterdijk is also concerned with the future, and on a ...