Everybody is creative: We are filters for our experience
One metaphor that I like for life is this model of a filter. In some way we seem to act as
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Don’t forget to live
In the world of self-development and all this talk about living a better life and improvement, all these kinds of
Minimalist knowledge: Life on a need-to-know basis
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, …
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Minimalist self-development: We don’t really need to “develop”
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 …
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Move your worst piece
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 …
A good state of mind is like fresh air
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 …
Hours and seasons bring us back to the moment
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 …
Home is a place shaped by love
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 …
Spacious time: How would your time look as a space?
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 …
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Disconnecting from the sun
Permanent daylight savings time. […] I find it very symbolic of the way that we interact with nature. […] Someone had a clever idea that we could actually pretend that the time is different than what it is. We could actually just change the clocks, completely arbitrarily. The sun isn’t changing. Still doing the same …
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