Mindfulness Mondays 61: The Great Hunger

July 26, 2010 by dr. lam

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Wayne Dyer opens his book, The Shift, with a passage from Hasten Slowly, a recounting of Sir Laurens van der Post, who spent time with the Kalahari Bushmen:

The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about two “hungers.”
There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger.
The Little Hunger wants food for the belly;
but the Great Hunger,
the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning….

There’s ultimately only one thing that makes
human beings deeply and profoundly bitter,
and that is to have thrust upon them
a life without meaning.

How well are you satisfying both of your hungers? What will you do today to make sure that you are doing something to satisfy your great hunger?

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