#CrackingTheCodeOfLife #LifeMeaning #LifePurpose #StartsWithBiology #NeedsWants #StomachHeartBrain-Mind #Hindbrain-Limbic-Neocortex #WhatIsEnough-WhatIsLimitless

#CrackingTheCode-LifeMeaning

#LifePurpose #StartsWithBiology #NeedsWants #StomachHeartBrain-Mind #Hindbrain-Limbic-Neocortex #WhatIsEnough-WhatIsLimitless

#Threads-Tapestries #Pieces-Puzzle-Life #Ingredients-Dish-Life #Components-Bricks-Foundation-Building-Life #Letter(s)-Sentences-LifeStory #Nature-Nurture-Experiences-Life #Before-Now-After #ComeFrom-Here-GoingTo #Start-End-Journey-PresentMoment-Destination

Poh-Sun Goh

6 June 2021, 0259am, Singapore Time

"#TravellingBroadensMind #TravellingLiftsMood #TravellingFeelsGood #BEL - #Travel - changes our environment (Mental, Emotional, Physical). This includes #AttendingCourses #ReadingBooks #SpeakingWithWise - #OpensMind, #WideningOurExperiences - which #ExpandsOurEmotionalRepertoire, and regular use of #Reflection #Coaching #Feedback; not to mention #PhysicalMovement #UsingBody #Exercise. #BeDoHave, rather than #HaveDoBe. Poh-Sun Goh, 5 June 2021, 0140am, Singapore Time (reflection immediately after reading Chapter 9, Have-Do-Be or Be-Do-Have, from 'Language and the pursuit of Happiness' by Chalmers Brothers; re-reading again [my daily ritual] Chapter 15, The Seven Habits of Happiness, from 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less' by Richard Koch, 1st edition; and Chapter 15, The New Disease, from 'Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time' by James Suzman; reflecting on work leading up to, and presentation of keynote at KSME 2021; and process of writing Learning Summary #2, for Foundation Course in Ontological Coaching https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/learning-summary-no2.html"

Poh-Sun Goh, 5 June 2021, 0148am, Singapore Time

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY

A mighty monarch in the days of old

Made offer of high honour, wealth and gold,

To one who should produce in form concise

A motto for his guidance, terse yet wise---

A precept, soothing in his hours forlorn,

Yet one that in his prosperous days would warn.

Many the maxims sent the king, men say.

The one he chose: "This too shall pass away."

Oh, jewel sentence from the mine of truth!

What riches it contains for age or youth.

No stately epic, measured and sublime,

So comforts, or so counsels, for all time

As these few words. Go write them on your heart

And make them of your daily life a part.

Has some misfortune fallen to your lot?

This too will pass away--absorb the thought.

And wait; your waiting will not be in vain,

Time gilds with gold the iron links of pain.

The dark to-day leads into light to-morrow;

There is no endless joy, no endless sorrow.

Are you upon earth's heights? No cloud in view?

Go read your motto once again: This too

Shall pass away; fame, glory, place and power,

They are but little baubles of the hour,

Flung by the ruthless years down in the dust.

Take warning and be worthy of God's trust.

Use well your prowess while it lasts; leave bloom,

Not blight, to mark your footprints to the tomb.

The truest greatness lies in being kind,

The truest wisdom in a happy mind.

He who desponds, his Maker's judgment mocks;

The gloomy Christian is a paradox.

Only the sunny soul respects its God.

Since life is short we need to make it broad;

Since life is brief we need to make it bright.

Then keep the old king's motto well in sight,

And let its meaning permeate each day.

Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

- Poems of Power by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/pthistoo.htm

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." - Viktor Frankl 

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/26/viktor-frankl-mans-search-for-meaning/

"The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one." - James Gorden Gilkey 

and Chapter James Gorden Gilkey from Light From Many Lamps by Lillian Watson

Chapter 15, The Seven Habits of Happiness, from 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less' by Richard Koch, 1st edition

Chapter 9, Have-Do-Be or Be-Do-Have, from 'Language and the pursuit of Happiness' by Chalmers Brothers

Chapter 15, The New Disease, from 'Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time' by James Suzman

"Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/assessmentdrivesleraning-onpurpose.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/applied-embodied-mindfulness-system-and.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/breaksinjourney-breaksalongpath.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/05/meaning-purpose-absolute-vs.html

Absolute and Relative Needs; Biology, Psychology and Social Anthropology; Personal Meaning and Purpose

"Essentially absolute needs are 'finite' (like water, food, sleep, safety, social connection), compared to relative needs which are 'infinite', which are shaped by 'social context and status'. When we expend effort to meet our finite or basic needs, sufficient effort or work is (just) enough!. We do not need to do more than necessary. For infinite needs however, the effort or work potentially expended, is infinite. Only limited by time, our lifespan, and limitations of our biology. It all boils down to our hindbrain being relatively small, whereas our emotional center, and forebrain or cerebral cortex much bigger!. Our stomachs having a finite capacity. Our mind an infinite one!" 

Poh-Sun Goh, 8 May 2021, 0325am, Singapore Time.

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/05/meaning-purpose-absolute-vs.html