The experience of being alive

Posted on April 13, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

This is a great quote from Joseph Campbell. To be fully alive, I need to experience my life and be alive. Thank you Bill for a great quote and picture.

drbillwooten's avatarDr Bill Wooten

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell

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About ivonprefontaine

In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms. I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders. I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs. I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry. I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry. I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning. Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate

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  1. Alex Jones's avatar Alex Jones | April 13, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    I identify with this great quote.

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  3. WordsFallFromMyEyes's avatar WordsFallFromMyEyes | April 14, 2013 at 5:26 am

    Ah. Yes. Well said, well said.

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  4. JK Bevill - Lost Creek Publishing's avatar JK Bevill - Lost Creek Publishing | April 14, 2013 at 6:38 am

    Reblogged this on lost creek publishing.

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  5. misifusa's avatar The Presents of Presence | April 14, 2013 at 10:39 am

    Love this ~ thanks for sharing it with us!

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  6. Amy's avatar Amy | April 14, 2013 at 12:40 pm

    Thank you for sharing. Happy Sunday, Ivon!

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  7. petrel41's avatar petrel41 | April 14, 2013 at 8:29 pm

    Congratulations, Ivon!

    I have nominated your blog for the Most Influential Blogger Award.

    The rules of this award are at

    Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks oasien!

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  8. Judy's avatar Judy | April 14, 2013 at 10:30 pm

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  9. Malcolm Greenhill's avatar Malcolm Greenhill | April 15, 2013 at 2:35 am

    Actually, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “I need to experience my life and be alive.” Theoretically you could imagine a black box experience machine that just feeds you experiences of life without you actually doing those things. Not many of us would plug ourselves into such a machine permanently even if we could not tell the fake experiences from the real thing. What we really want is to be alive and have those experiences although it is not easy to explain why that is.

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    • ivonprefontaine's avatar ivonprefontaine | April 15, 2013 at 10:21 pm

      You are right Malcolm. There have been studies where people have been asked, if they could be hooked into machines that controlled their lives, they would refuse. It is the mystery of life that adds to the experience.

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  10. lvsrao's avatar lvsrao | April 15, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    Great Quote.
    Life is ever expanding, contraction is death.

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