Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

Sometimes we can feel like it’s only the big things that matter and if we want our lives to matter we need to prioritize and give our lives to the big things. We can live our entire life believing that our significance is “somewhere out there.” I love that this

Found on page 438 of historian and Professor Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens:  A Brief History of Humankind (underlines mine, italics his): So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about the afterlife? Yes.  As long as nobody punctured their fantasies, why shouldn’t they?