Setting Your Compass

Discover how to set your life in a direction that is rich and deeply satisfying.

People whose metaphysics are, in effect, the comfortable feeling they have just after a heavy lunch; they see no need to raise ontological questions. They live and they die; and they think persons who torment themselves about ultimate questions both waste their time and overlook the pleasantness of the present.

— Michael Novak in Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An invitation to religious studies

The reality of what can happen when one is focused only on the present and on one's own pleasures was jolted for many on September 11, 2001. They began to search their lives for deeper meaning. As they did so, they agreed with Socrates' philosophy that the unexamined life is not worth living.

In these and other articles on Support4Change we bring you ideas you can use as you explore how your life can become richer and more deeply satisfying and how your choices can reflect a more serious goal than accumulating more material possessions.