Sunday, August 10, 2008

Here are a few quotes from the book I read " Man's Searching for Truth."

Dear Children,

•What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

•The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

•We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

•Everyone is on a journey through life. Part of this journey is our growing understanding of us and our world, and the development of our relationships with other people who are also undertaking their individual journeys.

As we progress on this journey we seek to make sense of our lives and our place in the world - the search for meaning.

With Love, Amma-Naana