The spirit of exploration
When I think about what brings meaning to my life, what makes life meaningful, often for me it comes back
The spirit of exploration Read More »
When I think about what brings meaning to my life, what makes life meaningful, often for me it comes back
The spirit of exploration Read More »
One metaphor that I like for life is this model of a filter. In some way we seem to act as
Everybody is creative: We are filters for our experience Read More »
In the world of self-development and all this talk about living a better life and improvement, all these kinds of
Don’t forget to live Read More »
One of the themes I keep coming back to is simplicity. Minimalism. Looked at minimalism of my physical possessions, the clutter that is around me, having clear, open space physically. And could also look at that in the clearness of time, having not too much clutter filling time, so that there’s open space in time,
Minimalist knowledge: Life on a need-to-know basis Read More »
It’s now been three years since I started this channel, and one year of a video every day, one year of a video every week, one year of a video every month, and now going down to one video every quarter. So when I started this, I was motivated by this idea that I was
Minimalist self-development: We don’t really need to “develop” Read More »
So I now find myself back in the old place, piles of stuff everywhere, as I move back in and try to improve the situation here, try to make this the best home, the best living environment, that I can. And there’s so many different pieces, so many different things, and the to-do list has
Move your worst piece Read More »
A good state of mind is like fresh air, and a bad state of mind is like being stuck in a stuffy room. And I like this metaphor because we’ve all had that experience of being in a room where the air is very stuffy and still, closed windows, no circulation. And maybe we get
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As I go on, I find that I have less and less to talk about, because things really become simpler. And looking for a meaningful life seems to be not so much about adding new things, finding something to add to basic life, but really more about removing distractions. So a lot of things that
Hours and seasons bring us back to the moment Read More »
It was while travelling around, doing a bit of a road trip around my home area, southern Ontario, got to near the furthest point away from my home, right down in the southwestern corner of Ontario, and I started to think about what really makes a home. What is it about home that makes it
Home is a place shaped by love Read More »
Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life in the park, down here by the Toronto waterfront, and today I’m thinking about what it means to think about time as if it’s space. If we think about the home that we live in, you can imagine a mental picture of what your house or apartment or
Spacious time: How would your time look as a space? Read More »