“The transient vacuities of … success, peace, happiness, and distraction – pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful. Moreover, the test of meaning is not a cognitive decision, so one should not suddenly quit this present life for any quixotic mission. Meaning is found, over the long haul, through the feeling of rightness within.”
Hollis J. “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.” Gotham Books, NY, 2005.
“Wisdom traditions, the paths followed by our patients and our own experiences suggest that a sense of integrity comes through establishing healing connections. That’s not quite it. It wasn’t that the wave needed to establish connections. It was connected — part of a greater whole. Its challenge was to recognize the connectedness that was already there.”
Mount BM. The existential moment. Palliat Support Care 2003; 1(1): 93-6.
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