Connection quotes6/29/2023 ![]() The depth of their soul can’t be reached by their partner standing at the top looking down. They are tired of people telling them not to care about other people, when that is not who God designed them to be. They have been looking for that person their entire life because they feel alone and misunderstood. They want a teammate that doesn’t say they get it, but someone who knows it, lived it and survived it. They want to wake up beside someone that knows their trials intimately. The one person that truly understands how they suffer because they have gone through it too. Sometimes, they just want that special someone that is just like them. ![]() “Sometimes, a person isn’t looking to increase their lifestyle, status or ego when they fall in love. ![]() An endeavor endowed with meaning may appear meaningful only when it proceeds briskly in the hands of a restricted number of actors and therefore where particular workers can make an imaginative connection between what they have done with their working days and their impact upon others.” There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good. It is because we are meaning-focused animals rather than simply materialistic ones that we can reasonably contemplate surrendering security for a career helping to bring drinking water to rural Malawi or might quit a job in consumer goods for one in cardiac nursing, aware that when it comes to improving the human condition a well-controlled defibrillator has the edge over even the finest biscuit.īut we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. “When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Survival in fact is about the connections between things in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).” No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. ![]() But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind.
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