August 2020

So sometimes we feel full, sometimes we feel empty. And what does that even mean? What is this metaphor? It must be some kind of metaphor because, obviously we’re not full or empty physically speaking. You know, we still have blood and everything inside us, and we’re not actually “empty” of anything. So what does […]

This universe is so big, so full of mystery, mystery beyond what we know, and even of the things we do know, so much about them is mysterious. There are wonders that are explained and they’re still wonderful, and there are wonders that we have no idea how to explain. And beyond all of that,

What is it about this universe? sometimes it feels like this amazing, wonderful place, a playground, a paradise, a hall of wonders. Everything is just so amazing and unbelievable. It’s unbelievable that any of this exists at all, and why is it the way it is? Why is there so much out there? Why is

Sometimes it feels like there’s a battle going on between want to and should. So there are things that I feel like I should do, this is what I’m supposed to do, and then there are other things that I would rather be doing. And so we see that learning discipline means that we’re then

So much of the world of self-development can go down this path of being about discipline. It’s all about, you know, what I should do, wanting to change myself, to do better, to find some way to be “successful” and find ways to “fix” myself. And it becomes this whole world of what I should

Address to share recordings: https://www.dropbox.com/request/QqSc46b0nvrLuEgKQD5Z Address to share writing, set up a call, or get further information: questforameaningfullife@gmail.com Over the last 10 months I’ve been talking about a lot of subjects, anything connected to this basic idea of a meaningful life, a good life, a happy life, a full life. What does it mean? How

In studying the whole world of escapism, why do people do it, what drives it, what’s this all about, one of the recurring themes is this feeling of feeling powerless. There’s so many things in our everyday lives that leave us feeling like we have no control, like we’re simply leaves blown in the wind,

The idea of being some kind of a character can have quite an influence on us, that we can think like, you know, “This is the kind of person I am”, and sort of cast it in the role of this kind of character. We’re playing a role, or we’re a certain character or a

In the last video, I talked about the idea of the shadow, this part of ourselves, anything about ourselves that we don’t want to accept, exactly those things that you don’t want to share with anybody and even with yourself, all the things that fall far short of any ideal that we have about ourselves

One of the traps of self-development, it seems, is that it’s so connected with wanting to improve, wanting to be “the best version of yourself”, wanting to improve yourself. Having some kind of image of the way that I want to be, and then I want to improve to bend my life towards being like