“Meaning—The Secret of Being Alive”
By Cliff Havener
This is a book about the Why of things—that territory of life we’re forbidden to enter. I wrote it to show why life is so lifeless for so many people, why meaning has been so difficult to find, and what to do about it if you want to. Mankind’s search for meaning has been a long, frustrating journey that began shortly after the rise of civilization. Now that we are beginning to understand complex systems, we’re finding that civilization itself, as we have defined it, is the major obstacle to finding meaning in life. Finding meaning in life requires having a systems view of it, because the things of life are systems. We talk about them. We refer to systems of government, systems of communication, ecological systems, systems of business, systems of thinking—but most of us have a linear view, not a systems view, of systems. That’s why they have no meaning to us.
The following links provide an introduction to the first three chapters of the book.
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