“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman
Now I just feel half-dead.
p.s. Howard Thurman [wiki] was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology and the chapels at Howard and Boston universities for more than two decades, wrote 20 books, and in 1944 helped found the first racially integrated, multicultural church in the United States.
Categories: musings
Tagged: life, my purpose in life, ponders, quotes
Found an interesting article in an interesting blog, thegrowinglife.com. It’s basically a life-hack / productivity blog, how to stay true to yourself, do what you love, going against the mainstream, and at the same time make a living out of it. A number of the articles written there ring very true to me and brings out new questions that hopefully will help me understand myself more.
So many of us live “stepping stone lives.”? We spend the majority of our waking hours working for goals that are merely stepping stones to other goals. For example:
- We do well in high school so we can get into a good college.
- We do well in college so we can get hired by a good company (or get into a good graduate school).
- We do well at our jobs so we can get even better jobs and make more money.
- We join committees to pad our resumes or impress our bosses.
(Question: what would your life be like if you cut out all the stepping stones?)
Categories: musings
Tagged: me, my purpose in life, ponder, the meaning of life
