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Campbell Meditation Experience - Finding the Purpose of Life

  Steven Foster I have always lived an aimless life. From a very early age, I wanted to make a lot of money. So, after finishing graduate school, I started a lot of businesses and failed. I always wanted to settle down. But every time I would start to settled down, I would see another possible business opportunity and change my business plan again and again and then, finally, I would fail once more. I repeated this cycle 4 or 5 times. Eventually, I became so exhausted from trying and just wanted to die. That’s when I found this meditation. I discovered meditation through the internet and the reviews were good and it was close to where I lived so I decided to go visit. When I went there, the meditation guide was kind and warm to me and explained the meditation method in very simple terms. I have never practiced meditation before, so I thought it would be difficult for me to follow along, but I soon found out that after meditating 1-2 times, this meditation was not difficult at all. ...

Campbell Meditation Movie – Life Is Beautiful (1998)

  Many people are experiencing fear and anxiety due to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. As everyone is practicing social distancing and their normal lifestyle has changed dramatically, we’ve also found that our economic situation is also being negatively affected. People wonder and worry about things like how long this difficult time will last. At the risk of sounding a bit extreme, many people say that what we are experiencing feels like a war. In my experience with living in this current situation, I suddenly remembered a movie that I had watched before called  Life is Beautiful . The film takes place during World War II and is a narrative of the touching story of Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), who is able to maintain his cheerful and pleasant demeanor even during the most difficult of times. The story starts out as a pleasant comedy with Guido falling in love with a school teacher named Dora and they soon get married. From that point in the movie, it follows the h...