“Meaning is something you experience in motion.”
Victor Frankl: Post-adventure restlessness “existential vacuum”; we distract ourselves with pleasure when we can’t find a sense of meaning.
Frankl’s formula to experience a life of meaning:
- Take action creating a work or performing a deed.
- Experience something or encounter someone that you find captivating and that pulls you out of yourself.
- Have an optimistic attitude toward the inevitable challenges and suffering you will experience in life.
“Jesus said Follow me rather than figure Me out.”
“Meaning is not an idea to be agreed with. It is a feeling you get when you live as a hero on a mission. And it cannot be experienced without taking action and living into a story.”
“Life tends to meet you as you get moving; and the more you move, the more opportunities life throws your way.”
“We do not find meaning in the wanting; we find meaning in the pursuit of the thing we want.”
“Meaning is centered in love. We’ve got to find something that pulls us out of ourselves.”
“Asking ‘what if?’ can drive incredible change in your life and give you a terrific reason to get out of bed in the morning.”
“Nihilism and a haunting sense of fatalism are luxuries people experience when they are mostly sedentary. A surgeon does not ponder the futility of life while they are transplanting a heart.”
“Act. Build something meaningful. Plan your mission and fight distractions so you can put something on the plot of your life story.”