Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and order. That works for every single environment for every person

I am not an atheist anymore ...

I am not an atheist anymore, because I don't look at the world that way anymore.
I am not a materialist anymore. I don't the world's made out of matter. I think it's made out of what matters. It's made out of meaning

There is no technical difference between thinking about yourself and being measurable

Where is the meaning to be found?

Life is hard. It's tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where is the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself so you take care of yourself.
If you're good at it you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family.
If you're good at both of those then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens and you find that's meaningful.
The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that's where the meaning is to be found. That meaning is in the continual self transcendence. That's letting your old self die and the new self be reborn