being an idealist is being a realist in the…

being an idealist is being a realist in the deepest sense. It is being true to our real nature. Being an idealist is about having a sense of purpose that encompasses our life as a whole, but for us to be happy, it is not enough to experience our life as meaningful, and the general level of the big picture According to French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne, the great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with. Having a purpose, a goal that provides a sense of direction and view our individual actions with meaning and from experiencing life as a fraction of discharges, we begin to experience it as a masterpiece. In itself, a note does not amount too much, but it becomes significant and beautiful, and part of a common theme a common purpose.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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Do not mistake any of this for naïveté. To be an idealist, rightly understood, is to be a realist in the deepest sense — to stay true to what you and the world could actually become. Nietzsche pictured the human being as a rope stretched over an abyss, a creature always in transition, never finished, always on the way to something higher. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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