Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
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