Meaning

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This quote by Sir Laurens van der Post‘s coincides with the angst that is central to individuals going through a quarterlife crisis:
“The Bushman storytellers talk about two kinds of hunger. They say there is physical huger, then what they call the Great Hunger. That is the hunger for meaning. There is only one thing that is truly insufferable, and that is a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong with the search for happiness. But there is something great—meaning–which transfigures all. When you have meaning you are content, you belong.”

Dark and Light

"What I know is this.  When one hungers for light it is only because one's knowledge of the dark is so deep."  Terry Tempest Williams

Hunger and the Heart's Message

"If we risk the imaginary dangers of being hungry for a passionate life - if we allow ourselves to feel the emptiness long enough and deep enough to hear the heart's  messages - we end up loving the longing itself.  We become less apt to want to rush to fill our every desire.  We allow ourselves to feel tender and open and even lonely without having to do anything about it.   Hunger becomes a sign of being alive."  Elizabeth Lesser

Longing

"We have grown accustomed to shutting down or blotting out feelings of loneliness, longing, hunger.  It's less challenging to feed the hunger with explanations, concepts, rules (or drugs, food or drink) than to rest awhile in the depths of the heart's longing."  Elizabeth Lesser

God

"God is only our name for it.   And the closer we get to it, it is then that we deeply realize that it is so unlike what we actually call God.   An awful lot of the time what we call the Divine is simply a projection of our own need or fear or hunger."   John O' Donahue

Addiction to the External

"If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us.   We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still."   John O' Donahue