If we are to survive suffering then we have to find meaning in it, says Viktor Frankl. It’s not happiness that's going to get through life (or the search for happiness) but a sense of meaning, says Jordan Peterson. The...
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The Extrinsic Self - which is to say, ‘the self which is based entirely on rules’ - and the State of Openness are completely incompatible with each other. Or rather, the Extrinsic Self is incompatible with Openness, since Openness doesn't...
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When the system of thought sets us futile or meaningless tasks (as it does do) and compels us to engage (and believe) in them, there is - in a superficial sense – an actual point to what it is doing....
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It is in one way something of a cliche to say that the most important need we have in life is the need for meaning, the need for our lives to be actually meaningful to us. It is perfectly true...
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“What is the rule that tells us how to be?” is the same as asking what the method is for being, what the correct procedure or protocol is for being. We are asking what the correct formula is, so that...
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