My Favorites March 2016: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!

Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times – Deepak Chopra and Sadhguru

What is the Meaning of Life ?

At some point or another we all have struggled to get answers to the questions like What is the meaning of life ? What is the purpose of life ? What is the definition of life? Why are we here? What is the purpose of MY life? What is life? Guest post by Happiness

How to Build an Empire
Leo Babauta on how to build a successful business. Read it here!

Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose
“The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it.” Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

My Favorites December 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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7 Powerful Questions for Discerning Your Purpose

Each of us has a distinctly individual purpose for our talents and gifts. But sometimes we stand at a crossroads, wondering which way is the best way for making use of all that we are and have to offer. Here are seven powerful questions to ask when trying to discern your very unique purpose

The Calm Approach

Leo Babauta at his best. Read it here

Why You Should Call a Timeout Every Day
Annual vacations, sick days, and even weekends are not enough of a respite from the busy world. While reducing busyness may be the long-term goal, immediately you need to call a timeout every day to focus on things that … continue reading

How To Let Go Of Suffering

People tend to think that if they satisfy their desires, then they will be happier. They think,if my kids behave a certain way, then I’ll be happy. If I don’t lose my patience, then I’ll be happy. If I can do something really new and interesting, then I’ll be happy.

But satisfying desires never makes you happy, at least not for very long. Yes, it will feel good for a little bit, but ultimately it won’t solve the problem of suffering.

The first step to letting go …

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

My Favorites November 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK

LUCK-IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE-ISN’T ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU, IT’S ALSO SOMETHING YOU CAN FIND AND HELP CREATE. Read it here

Letting Go of Wishing Things Were Different

One of the hardest things to let go of is the way we want things to be. We have fantasies of how our lives could be like, what we could be like as people, what other people should be like, what the world should be like. These are fantasies, but we rarely recognize them as such. And so it’s hard to let them go, because we want them so.

(Leo Babauta) Read it here

6 Little Money Mindset Shifts That Pay Off Huge
Just in time before the festive season: Marie Forleo

A Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

One unusual and beautiful way to slow down

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We live in a noisy world. Our cities and towns fizz with an almost permanent tinnitus of machine-generated sound. And even if, by some fluke, all that noise is temporarily absent, most of us are left with the din of our own mental machinery churning inside.

To disengage from all that noise requires a drastic amputation from our usual environment: a trip to some distant wilderness perhaps, or an afternoon in a floating tank. Sometimes we try to approximate the absence of noise by sitting in a garden or a park with the hum of the traffic or roaring jet planes swept into the distance for a brief hour or two. Or we listen to ‘relaxation’ tapes of rhythmic sea-surf, dawn choruses and celtic harp music laced with saccharine.

Clychau Dibon by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita isn’t one of those tapes. Believe me.

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Dieter Langenecker

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My Favorites August 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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Why Do We Search For More in Our Lives?

People often come to see me when they are in their 30s or 40s and say, I have done what was expected of me and had a career doing the right thing, now I want to do something else. Something that makes me feel whole/complete. Something that brings me joy and fulfilment and helps me fulfil a personal quest. But, I’m not sure what my purpose is.

Interesting article by Hemla Makan-Dullabh. Read it here

The moderation glitch

More doesn’t scale forever. Why are we so bad at engaging with this obvious truth? Seth Godin, continue reading

Sadhguru: Stop Being Dead Serious About Life

Want to Succeed? Let Go
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.~Lao Tsu. Guest post by John Freund

Integrity: What’s Up With That?

What do you mean when you think of integrity? Like trust, integrity is something we all talk about, meaning many different things, but always assuming that everyone else means just what we do. That leads to some vagueness and confusion. But a careful examination of how we use the words in common language is useful. Charles H. Green

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

My Favorites November 2014: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

Is Your Ego Your Servant or Your Master?

Everyone talks about the ego: ego trips, healthy ego, negative ego, big ego, get rid of your ego, even kill your ego. But what is the ego? Is there such a thing? Or is the ego just a version of our hyper-inflated need for security in a world of apparent threats? Great article, read it here

To Simplify Is To Amplify

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
We immerse ourselves in a fast paced schedule and make life complicated. When we focus on what’s important, we take complicated things and make them simple. This simplification leads to the amplification of what we truly value. ... continue reading

Use the Power of Meditation to Create Wholeness in Your Life

I meet a great many people who come to me with the desire for change. Many are in the throes of decisions regarding health, business and/or relationships and most are in distress as to how to handle what is coming their way. My first question to these people used to be “Do you meditate?” but I have come to know that chances are good that they are in distress because they don’t. So, instead, my question becomes: “You don’t meditate, do you?” And when they say “no,” I begin to share with them the light of mindfulness.

Zen Mountain: Leave It All Behind

“What day is it?”
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

Last weekend I spent nearly four days leading a retreat, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. To get to this Zen center, you make a journey through a twisting bumpy rising falling mountainroad, and then you’ve arrived.

And what a place to arrive at! It’s a place of peace, with a silently gushing river, people meditating all the time, everyone walking slowly, no distractions, constant gratitude and mindfulness. A beautiful place of peace.

As I contemplated the peace of leaving it all behind, I wondered why we need a place in the mountains for this kind of peace. continue reading here

The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts

The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts

Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie

Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie

And if you want to learn a little bit more about meditation visit MeditationSpirituality

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

PS: And if you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can help you to live a meaningful life visit www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

Greetings!

Today I want to present to you two relatively young and one very old concept of how to tackle today’s challenges:

Social entrepreneurship – the new heroes?

Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. They pursue opportunities to serve this mission, while continuously adapting and learning. They draw upon appropriate thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds and operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid.

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