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How to find meaning in suffering
Is it possible to transform a difficult time or challenging experience into something meaningful? In Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl shares how suffering can reveal your purpose and make a dark time more bearable. Here are three ways you can implement his insights right now.
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How Art Can Make You Happy
The little book, How Art Can Make You Happy by Bridget Watson Payne, shows how art can bring happiness to our lives and even change our perspectives. It makes the case that although art may not always be happy, pretty or even comfortable, it can make us aware of three important realities: the reality of
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7th Living With Purpose
South African writers often complain of South Africa as a place of confinement. J.M. Coetzee said South African literature is “literature in bondage,” “less than fully human,” “the kind of literature you’d expect someone to write from prison.” The poet Breyten Breytenbach, when wrongfully incarcerated in actual prison, imagined his poems as birds that could
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Sixth Get Ready For A New Season
South African writers often complain of South Africa as a place of confinement. J.M. Coetzee said South African literature is “literature in bondage,” “less than fully human,” “the kind of literature you’d expect someone to write from prison.” The poet Breyten Breytenbach, when wrongfully incarcerated in actual prison, imagined his poems as birds that could
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Fifth The Confines Of Thinking
South African writers often complain of South Africa as a place of confinement. J.M. Coetzee said South African literature is “literature in bondage,” “less than fully human,” “the kind of literature you’d expect someone to write from prison.” The poet Breyten Breytenbach, when wrongfully incarcerated in actual prison, imagined his poems as birds that could
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Fourth Article Better Every Day
South African writers often complain of South Africa as a place of confinement. J.M. Coetzee said South African literature is “literature in bondage,” “less than fully human,” “the kind of literature you’d expect someone to write from prison.” The poet Breyten Breytenbach, when wrongfully incarcerated in actual prison, imagined his poems as birds that could
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Third Article On How To Live
The angel on top of Mary Reed’s bookshelf had one broken wing. This disturbed Rachel every time she visited the Reed family. The fact that the rest of the angel was pristine bothered her even more. How can no one be bothered to fix it? And worse still, how can they put such brokenness on