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Mike Polischuk
Mike Polischuk Quick Facts
In the summer of 2009 a vague feeling of dissatisfaction that accompanied me for several years, has crystallized into a clear realization that my life lacked any significant meaning, purpose or direction. Seemingly successful, I was feeling empty and bored. This realization was frightening and freeing in the same time. It was the beginning of a journey, that all of us have to take, sooner or later, in order to realize ourselves.
The journey lead me to leave a long-standing relationship in which I wasn't happy, leave a 6-year army service which wasn't satisfying me anymore, and look deep into myself. Free from the liabilities of a job, a relationship or any other commitment, I took a spontaneous trip to Mongolia. There, amidst the endless green plains of the nomads, my future life started to take form before my eyes.
Today, I live with my future wife, whom I met on the trip, I work on a web startup that helps manage meaningful relationships online, volunteer as a counselor in an Internet crisis line, and write a blog on meaning and purpose in life.
I don't have much answers. But I know that we have to ask the questions, and believe that somehow, the process of looking for the answers will guide us through, to our better, happier selves.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mike Polischuk
"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began, and to know the place for the first time" (T.S. Eliot)
"We are not our feelings, our moods, our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world" (S. Covey)
"Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the centre of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the centre of his existence. Only in this ‘central experience’ is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love." (E. Fromm)
