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How to Handle Others' Judgment When You Choose Meaning Over Money

I quit my corporate job to start a nonprofit and everyone keeps telling me I'm throwing my life away but I cannot shake the feeling that my old work was slowly killing something inside me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The courage to follow right livelihood often requires withstanding the incomprehension of those still trapped in conventional measures of success.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.