It’s a question that has vexed the human race throughout time: How can you live a life filled with meaning?
He says we need to step back and see the impact the quest for financial gain has on us.
Volf grew up in Communist Yugoslavia and found meaning in his own life through studying religion, which taught him the importance of another element of a good life. “There is a commandment in First Peter, two words: ‘Honor everyone,’” he said. “Which means I need to listen to them, which means I need to open myself up to see whether I can learn something from a person with whom I profoundly disagree."
“I think pain matters because it opens us up to who we truly are,” he said. “Often it is possible for that suffering to turn us into something much more beautiful than we were before.”"I’m starting to think more and more that it’s not about what I’m doing, so much as why I’m doing the things I’m doing," Yale sophomore Laua Zeng said.
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