It cannot be said enough: meaning is found at the intersection of what is truly good and what the individual uniquely has to offer. But, although our understanding of what constitutes goodness changes and (ideally) increases over time, what constitutes…

The principle that defines Chase Meaning, that meaning is found where what is truly good and what makes an individual unique intersect, is interesting as an abstract idea but it is only useful if applied in the realm of the…

Depending on one’s perspective, the term “self-improvement” either holds the promise of growing beyond the mistakes of the past or it is an unrealistic aspiration to be better than we actually are. I think most of the time we find…

 “Duty” is a word that, for many, elicits feelings of obligation and restriction. It conjures images of joyless servitude and seems to threaten individuality. But duty in its purest sense not only provides direction and purpose. It also unlocks our…

We live in an age where the reigning presumption is that morality is based on how strongly one feels about a given issue at a given time and that simply feeling a certain way makes one a good person. Emotionalism…

One “great and apparent distinction between man and the inferior animals” is memory (pg. 7). In animals, there seems to be a basic ability to recognize familiarity and act accordingly through instinct, but only humans can capture past events accurately…

I try to write in the spirit of exploration and discovery, not dogmatic finality. As I explained previously, to write is to focus my attention on a particular subject to see what that subject reveals about itself. My perception…

Music speaks directly to our intuition, which is the direct apprehension of fundamental truths prior to any intentional reasoning. Our understanding immediately grasps the story that music tells, which is partly why music affects us so powerfully. It bypasses logic…

“Meaning” is one of those concepts that is hard to describe but unmistakable when experienced. Each of us can point to a moment in time when we seemed to peek behind the veil of the mundane and momentarily perceived the…

With the new Chase Meaning project comes a new blog. Fortunately, all blog entries published at Engaged Awareness are included in The Chase Meaning Primer. You can catch up there and enjoy the new content going forward.