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Moving from just Surviving to Thriving A long time ago I watched a documentary on TV about a woman who had participated in a particular type of therapy to help her with a personal problem that had been fairly significant for her. At the beginning of the show she seemed sad and somewhat discouraged with her life. At the end of the show her spirits had lifted significantly and she made the following statement that had a profound impact on me, she said, "Now I'm learning to thrive rather than just survive." When I heard that statement I thought, that's what I want to do, I want to know how to thrive. It seemed like a big part of my life had been focused on how to simply survive from day to day and that just wasn't enough any more. I wanted to be able to thrive, and I set out to learn how to do that. I've learned a lot about the difference between surviving and thriving since then. it's the difference between a mechanistic model of life and an organic spiritual one, between subjective and objective, between knowledge and wisdom, between momentary happiness and lasting satisfaction and enrichment. What most people seem to have in common is the desire to live satisfying, fulfilling lives of enrichment and to be able to offer this to their children as their rightful heritage. We are now becoming aware as a society that the old mechanistic model is no longer working to accomplish this. Together, we are waking up to the fact that meaning is necessary for satisfaction and enrichment. Wisdom is the ability to assign significant meaning to knowledge for the purpose of satisfaction and enrichment. Here are a few of the paths I've taken in discovering my own wisdom and moving from surviving to thriving:
This web site is dedicated to sharing what I've discovered through this movement.
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