Shadow Puppet Storyteller

Finding Purpose

Ten minutes. Pulling something random off the bookshelf -- alright, not exactly random, I was thinking about a topic, so gravitated to Mihaly Csikszentmihaly's Flow I checked the index, first, seeing if the topic of "purpose" was there. It was not, and I might have stopped there. Then I saw that Madeline L'Engle's name was mentioned once in the final chapter on page 144.Her statement being paraphrased didn't fit my need either, but it did make me glance up to the chapter name, "Love of Fate." So I took a few more minutes to read the first three pages for that chapter. Surprised to find the life philosophies of Socrates, Buddhism and Jonas Salk all mentioned within the same span of a few pages. And a little better enlightened in the way to frame purpose.