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Ven. Tenzin Dasel: What is the Meaning of Life?

By Excellence Reporter on January 23, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Aberjhani: The Meaning of Life… the trials and triumphs of our individual

By Excellence Reporter on May 16, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Marybeth Holleman: The Meaning of Life… just pure, unconditional, continuous Love

By Excellence Reporter on April 5, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Jose Calarco & Ana Forrest: The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on March 22, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Dr. Anne Poelina: The Meaning of Life and the Law of the Land

By Excellence Reporter on March 8, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Angela Farmer: Life Has Meaning… Not In Words But In The Living

By Excellence Reporter on June 2, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

Victor Hugo: Love, Man & Woman — The Supreme Happiness of Life

Khensur Rinpoche: The Meaning of Life… and our “Buddha” mind

Dr. Hansaji Jayadeva Yogendra: On the Meaning of Life

Master Helen Liang: The Meaning of Life… embracing and breathing the Dao

Richard Wagner: Music & Art — The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” “Music is the living God in our bosoms.” “The purpose of art is to make the unconscious conscious.” I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; – I believe in the Holy Spirit and […]

Rachel Carson: The Meaning of Life…a silent spring

By Excellence Reporter on April 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.” “For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to […]

John Muir: The Meaning of Life — going to the woods…

By Excellence Reporter on April 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.” “Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.” “The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of […]

Ernest Becker: Man & Transcending Death — The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“We are gods with anuses.” “We did not create ourselves, but we are stuck with ourselves.” “Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.” “The urge to immortality is not a simple reflex of the death-anxiety but a reaching out by one’s whole being toward life.” […]

Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Life is a constant process of dying.” “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.” “Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a […]

Robert G. Ingersoll: The Liberty of Man & Woman — The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.“ “Nothing but truth is immortal.” “Liberty is a word without which all other words are vain.” What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the […]

Dale Carnegie: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” “Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.” “Life is too short to be little”. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, […]

Plagues and the Maestro of Harmony and Balance

By Excellence Reporter on March 29, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This open letter to humanity was written for inclusion in a forthcoming artbook by Aberjhani featuring literary dialogues in the form of letters, poetry, and original artwork reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic.  There is a simple and absolute law that’s governing everything on this planet – it is […]

Animal Symbolism: What Do Different Animals Represent?

By Excellence Reporter on March 29, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Has anyone ever asked you if there is an animal that you feel closely connected to? This doesn’t need to be an individual animal but rather that animal as a whole. Animals have always been attached to spiritual attributes, so it’s no wonder why we feel close to […]

Powerful Advice for Those Who Want to Grow (in the digital age)

By Excellence Reporter on March 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

How much does advanced technology affect us? We do understand that it cannot be stopped. Every child nowadays has all sorts of gadgets in their pockets. Two year olds master the tablet just like their parents. It is clear that a new generation is growing up; it even […]

Tao Calligraphy: The Modernisation of an Ancient Art Form

By Excellence Reporter on March 10, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

“Master Sha has applied his own knowledge to the ancient art of Chinese Calligraphy to create Tao Calligraphy, art beyond art that has a positive effect on anyone in its presence.” Dr & Master Zhi Gang Sha is a world renowned teacher, author, and one of the most […]

Kahlil Gibran: Beauty, Love & Woman — The Prophetic Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 2, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

“Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page of light. “ “From a sensitive woman’s heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind’s affection.” “When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman […]

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Living & Dying — The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on December 31, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.” “Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’ “ “Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple […]

Swami Muktananda: Meditation, Love & the Purpose of Life

By Excellence Reporter on December 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.” “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.” “Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we […]

Søren Kierkegaard: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on December 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” “Man has made a discovery… the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.” “Faith is the highest passion in a man.” “To be human, is not a fact, but a task.” […]

Rumi: Love — The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on December 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.” “What you seek is seeking you.“ “Silence is the language of God,all else is poor translation.” “Woman is the light of God.“ “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils […]

Sharon Gannon: The Meaning of Life — SATCHIDANANDA — Truth, Consciousness & Bliss

By Excellence Reporter on December 18, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

Excellence Reporter: Sharon, what is the meaning of life? Sharon Gannon: The meaning of life is to drop all the meanness. When meanness drops away—what remains is kindness. To choose kindness over meanness is to live a meaningful life. The purpose of our lives is to remember who […]

Confucius: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on December 12, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.“ “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.“ “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.“ “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. We have two lives, and the second begins […]

Dr. Derek Gerlach: The Meaning of Life — Finding Your True Self

By Excellence Reporter on December 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Dr. Gerlach, what is the meaning of life? Or the purpose of life if you will… Dr. Derek Gerlach: I believe the purpose of life is to learn, grow, and evolve as spiritual beings. In brief, to find our true selves. To explain why growth gives […]

Miyamoto Musashi: 50 Precepts for a Wise and Balanced Life

By Excellence Reporter on November 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” Accept everything just the way it is. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. Do not, under any […]

Yamamoto Tsunetomo: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life — The Way of the Samurai

By Excellence Reporter on November 25, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, “When your own heart asks.” “I do not know how to defeat others. All I know is the path to defeat myself.“ “Singlemindedness is all-powerful.“ “There is surely nothing […]

The Role Of Meditation In An Age Of Anxiety

By Excellence Reporter on November 25, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The Dalai Lama once said, “When there is too much stress or worry, look within.” 2020 has been a very tumultuous year so far, with countless individuals experiencing more frequent (and more severe) bouts of anxiety. Although meditation has been practiced for centuries to calm the mind, it has been […]

Pythagoras: On the Meaning and the Wisdom of Life

By Excellence Reporter on November 15, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.“ “The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.“ “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than […]

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Meaning of Life — Music & The Honor of God

By Excellence Reporter on November 15, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Soli Deo Gloria“ “Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.“ “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Harmony is next to Godliness. It is the special province of music to move […]

D.T. Suzuki: Zen — Catching Life as it Flows

By Excellence Reporter on November 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Life is after all a form of affirmation. However insistently the blind may deny the existence of the sun, they cannot annihilate it. Life as it is lived suffices. It is only when the disquieting intellect steps in and tries to murder it that we stop to live […]

Hippocrates: On the Wisdom of a Healthy Life

By Excellence Reporter on October 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Walking is man’s best medicine.“ “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.“ “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.“ “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought […]

John Burroughs: Nature — The Most Precious Source of Life

By Excellence Reporter on October 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The kingdom of heaven is not a placebut a state of mind.” “Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of […]

How Long Should One Meditate?

By Excellence Reporter on October 26, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

There was once a monk who was meditating beside the road, and he apparently had been there for many, many years, for his hair had grown out into the ground, birds had made nests in his hair. He was sitting there meditating. All of a sudden he felt […]

How to Decide Between Seeing a Psychic vs. Medium

By Excellence Reporter on October 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Do you believe in psychic phenomena? About 57% of Americans are certain that psychic occurrences exist. However, 8 out of every 10 people surveyed admit they’ve never personally had a psychic experience. Instead, it seems that only psychics and mediums can harness the supernatural powers that so many […]

Lama Thubten Yeshe: Making the Most of Your Life

By Excellence Reporter on October 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

This weekend we are very fortunate in that we have the opportunity to cultivate bodhicitta and put the actions of our body, speech and mind into the path to liberation, the path of control. This is so worthwhile. Despite having had many previous lives and having lived many […]

6 Tips on Choosing Church Lighting for Beginners

By Excellence Reporter on October 1, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Have you just opened up your own church? One of the first things you have to decide on besides gathering a fellowship is your lighting. Church lighting can cast a certain mood that will either make or break your services. If you plan to have your sermons recorded, […]

Swami Govindananda: The Meaning of Life as taught by the Bhagavad Gita

By Excellence Reporter on September 25, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most popular and well-read books of wisdom in the history of humankind. Known also as the Song of God, it is a conversation between the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna and his devotee Arjuna, on the verge of the Mahabharata war. The […]

Bonny Meyer: The Meaning of Life is Love

By Excellence Reporter on September 16, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Bonny, what is the meaning of life? Bonny Meyer: The meaning of life is to love and what gives meaning to life is love. Love is the essence of our being. We are born lovers. If you don’t believe me, just look at the way a […]

David Richards: A Different Idea on the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on September 15, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: David, what is the meaning of life? David Richards: This seems like such an easy question to answer, in finding a meaning to life.  It is the stuff quips are made of; “the meaning of life is to live a life of meaning.” But how? How to […]

Philip Goldberg: The Meaning of Life… worth embracing and worth pursuing

By Excellence Reporter on September 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Philip, what is the meaning of life? Philip Goldberg: This is a multileveled question. Let’s start with the ultimate level: Is there meaning inherent in life as such?  Or, asked another way: Does existence itself have meaning?  To this, my answer must be “I don’t know. […]

Thomas Paine: On the Wisdom of Life and the Man of Reason

By Excellence Reporter on September 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.“ “Give me liberty, or give me death.“ “When it can be said by any country in the world, my […]

Wudang Bee Daoist: On the Wisdom of Life

By Excellence Reporter on August 25, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Bee Daoist: If you have the Dao in your heart you are the man of the Dao. We carry these clothes, these shoes, this hat… if we do not see the Dao in our heart, we are no Daoists at all. To carry the Dao in our hearts […]

Thomas Edison: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on August 24, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” “Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business.Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous.Be brave as your fathers before you.Have faith!Go forward!“ “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize […]

Michael Winn: What is the Meaning of Life?

By Excellence Reporter on August 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Master Winn, what is the meaning of life? Michael Winn: From my Taoist view, “meaning” is a culturally or linguistically constructed CONCEPT. “Life” is the important part of the question. The underlying question is really “what does it mean to be fully alive?”. Life is the […]

Les Brown: On the Meaning and the Purpose of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

If you don’t know why you are here. I encourage you to find out what your purpose is here. What is the meaning of your life? What will be different? Have you ever asked yourself that question? And most people go to their graves with their greatness still […]

What Can a Numerology Report Tell You? How Numerology Works

By Excellence Reporter on July 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Interested in getting a numerology report but aren’t sure how this ancient art works? Let’s take a closer look at the workings of numerology. Sometimes we need answers that the earthly world can not give us. There are plenty of ways to go about finding our paths, but […]

Discovering the Meaning of Life by Encouraging Spiritual Health

By Excellence Reporter on July 25, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Spiritual practices offer us a lot of benefits, especially in this time of uncertainty. Encouraging spiritual health will, not only, promote stability in your daily life but it can also offer a sense of purpose often showing people the true meaning of life. When we dive deep into […]

Leonardo da Vinci: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 14, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.” “He who does not value life does not deserve it.” “Life without love, is no life at all.” “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. The height of a man’s […]

Thomas Jefferson: The Meaning of Life — Liberty & Happiness

By Excellence Reporter on July 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” “Without books, I would certainly die.“ “The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.” Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Nothing can stop the man […]

Michelangelo: The Meaning of Life — Sculpting Your Masterpiece… Your Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The true work of artis but a shadow of the divine perfection.” “With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.” “To touch is to give life…” “Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step […]

John D. Rockefeller: On the Wisdom of Life — The Man of Worth and Success

By Excellence Reporter on July 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individualand in his right to life, libertyand the pursuit of happiness.” “God gave me my money.” “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. The road to happiness […]

Plato: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.“ “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself;to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.” “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always […]

Andrew Carnegie: The Meaning of Life — The Man of Wealth and Wisdom

By Excellence Reporter on July 8, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.“ “If you want to be happy, […]

Vincent van Gogh: The Meaning of Life — Living with Heart & Stars

By Excellence Reporter on July 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” “Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.” “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all… […]

Abraham Lincoln: On the Wisdom of Life and Liberty

By Excellence Reporter on July 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Life is hard but so very beautiful.” “Whatever you are, be a good one.” “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound […]

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Teach from life experiences, not from words…” “All my life I’ve been tormented by the thought of the purpose of this life. I asked myself the question: why do we need this life? The fact that a person works to achieve material wealth, to eat and drink, is […]

Ludwig van Beethoven: On the Meaning of Life — Music & Divine

By Excellence Reporter on July 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. Music is the […]

Frédéric Chopin: On the Wisdom of Life and the Heart of Man

By Excellence Reporter on July 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.“ “Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. How strange! […]

Franz Schubert: On the Wisdom of Life and Music

By Excellence Reporter on July 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. There is no such thing as happy music. My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. Those who are born of grief give greatest delight […]

Socrates: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 3, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“The unexamined life is not worth living.“ “Know thyself.“ “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your […]

Swami Vishnudevananda Giri: The Meaning of Life — Living in the Modern World

By Excellence Reporter on July 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Om Namaste! We are taught by the ancient Vedic wisdom that life is too great a mystery, too big a secret, no matter how we would like to live in it. The human who does not think about life, about its meaning, about his place in it, he […]

Aristotle: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on July 1, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.“ “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. And happiness depends […]

Theodore Roosevelt: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on June 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it. There can be no […]

Antonio Vivaldi: The Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on June 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“There are no words, it’s only music there…”   *** ~Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and Roman Catholic priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence […]

Victor Hugo: Love, Man & Woman — The Supreme Happiness of Life

By Excellence Reporter on June 9, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the […]

Franz Liszt: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life and Music

By Excellence Reporter on June 8, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.“   “Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb […]

Mikhail Prishvin: Nature, Love, and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on June 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The animal knows everything, but cannot say it. Man can say a lot, but knows nothing.”   “Joy and happiness are the children of love, but love itself, as the moving force, is patience and compassion. Love is the root of life. But she does not come just […]

Igumen Nikon: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on May 15, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“We are all littered with trash, and yet underneath that the twinkle of the True Self flickers.”   “First of all seek the Kingdom of God and its truth. If you work for the body, you must work for the soul too. Your heart needs to be cultivated […]

The Meaning of Life — According to the Athos Elders

By Excellence Reporter on May 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Days, years, centuries pass as a shadow and we all approach our end. The life of man is a book, and every day of his life is one page of the book. Every book has an end, and human life has an end too. On the pages of […]

Master Zhongxian Wu: Does My Life Belong to Me?

By Excellence Reporter on May 4, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Excellence Reporter: Master Wu, what is the meaning of life? Master Wu: I came into this world bringing nothing with me, not even any clothes. When I depart, I will not be able to bring anything back with me. For more than 40 years I have been meditating […]

Andrei Tarkovsky: Art, Man, and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Art has always been a weapon in the struggle of man against matter, threatening to swallow his spirit…”   “Man is interesting to me for his willingness to serve something higher than oneself, and even for his inability to perceive the ordinary and the philistine moral life.  I’m […]

Fr. Mikhail Makhov: On the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I was asked by Excellence Reporter to answer the question: “what is the meaning of life?” I tormented myself all evening and night, remembering how I have lived and what I had in my life, and what I saw as meaningful in this life. With great surprise I […]

August Turak on The Meaning and Purpose of Life

By Excellence Reporter on April 17, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

*** ~AUGUST TURAK is a highly successful entrepreneur, award-winning author, speaker, and contributor for Forbes and the BBC. He is the founder of the educational nonprofit the Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation (SKSF). As a frequent guest, Turak has been living and working alongside the monks of Mepkin Abbey […]

Ping Fang: The Meaning of Life — Giving With Gratitude

By Excellence Reporter on April 13, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Excellence Reporter: Ping, what is the meaning of life? Ping Fang: This has been the question pondering in my heart since childhood. What is the purpose of being human? Is there any meaning to it?  I was born in the time of the Cultural Revolution in China – […]

Omar Khayyam: To Wisely Live Your Life…

By Excellence Reporter on April 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much.Just remember two main rules for the beginning: • You better starve, than eat whatever;• And better be alone, than with whoever. Scholars really have nothing to teach you. But from the soft touch of the eyelashes of […]

Zeenat Potia: The Meaning of Life — Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows

By Excellence Reporter on February 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Zeenat, what is the meaning of life? Zeenat Potia: I see open, receptive palms. Both receiving and offering the gifts of our collective human existence. For me, this may look like hearing my daughter’s laughter, feeling the warm monsoon rains on my face, allowing myself to […]

Karsten Ramser: Meaning Gives Rise to Real Happiness, But Happiness Doesn’t Provide Meaning

By Excellence Reporter on February 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The paradox is — we want happiness but we get suffering, and that’s the curse of our desire for (instant) happiness. Modern times are the epoch of the search for happiness and that’s perfectly fine, but when it is not based on meaning, our search very soon becomes […]

Steve Beckow: The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment

By Excellence Reporter on February 24, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

On Feb. 13, 1987, I was shown, in a vision, what the purpose of life is and the lesson has never left me. It happened while I was driving my car on my way to work in the city of Vancouver, Canada. I was at the time registered […]

Narayan Helen Liebenson: The Meaning of Life… the indestructible nature of your heart

By Excellence Reporter on February 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Narayan, what is the meaning of life? Narayan Helen Liebenson: A friend once had an awakening experience and went to a master to ask whether this experience meant he was now enlightened. The master asked my friend: “do you have complete confidence in the indestructible nature […]

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche: The Meaning of Life — Future, Past and Present

By Excellence Reporter on February 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Rinpoche, what is meaning of life? Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche: The meaning of life is the present moment. If we are able to be in the present moment, we gain great happiness.  Most people think too much about the future and the past to get happiness and […]

B.K.S. Iyengar: The Meaning of Life — The Harmony of Body, Mind and Soul

By Excellence Reporter on February 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”   “Life means to be living. Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga — don’t take a break. Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, […]

Igor Kufayev: On The Meaning of Life 

By Excellence Reporter on February 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Igor, what is the meaning of life? Igor Kufayev: Speaking ultimately, Life, as an expression of Being, is beyond any meaning we can ascribe to it. That does not mean that Life is meaningless, but rather that it has as many meanings as there are levels of […]

St. Thérèse de Lisieux: The Little Flower of Eternal Life

By Excellence Reporter on February 4, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.”   “Every flower created by God is beautiful. That the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness […]

Barbara Harris Whitfield: The Meaning of Life… and the Energy of God

By Excellence Reporter on February 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Barbara, what is the meaning of life? Barbara Harris Whitfield: I had a near-death experience many years ago in 1975. The highlight was what is called “The Life Review.” There I saw a cloud with thousands of bubbles and in each bubble was an event from […]

Yvon Chouinard: On the Wisdom of Life — Zen Business, Living Simply

By Excellence Reporter on January 24, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The more you know, the less you need.” “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. What’s important is leading an examined life. Mastery… is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill. […]

Ven. Tenzin Dasel: What is the Meaning of Life?

By Excellence Reporter on January 23, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Excellence Reporter: Ven. Tenzin Dasel, what is the meaning of life? Tenzin Dasel: That is up to each of us personally to discover and create. From the very beginning of life, we begin to form associations that quickly become meaningful. We are, each of us, the creators of giving […]

Nikola Tesla: On Civilized Society

By Excellence Reporter on January 23, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of […]

R. Buckminster Fuller: On the Wisdom and the Purpose of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.” “Dare to be naive Dare to think Dare to go with the truth And dare to really love completely.” “The purpose of our lives is to add value to the […]

T Proctor: The Meaning of Life… everything and nothing

By Excellence Reporter on January 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: T Proctor, what is the meaning of life? T Proctor: The meaning of life is nothing. And from that nothing comes everything. There are still songs to sing, dances to dance and hearts to be touched. There are stars to be born and constellations to be […]

Taco van der Mark: The Meaning of Life… empty your ‘head’ into a mind flower

By Excellence Reporter on January 18, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

Excellence Reporter: Taco, what is the meaning of life? Taco van der Mark: This is the question which has been on my mind since my childhood. What is the purpose of Life, what am I doing here on this earth? In my teens I remember one of those […]

Carlos Castaneda: On the Wisdom of Life — Living as a Free Warrior

By Excellence Reporter on January 14, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive. In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time […]

St. Teresa of Ávila: On the Wisdom of Prayer, Humility, and Love

By Excellence Reporter on January 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find Him.” “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”   “It is love alone that gives worth to all things. The important thing is not to think […]

Neville Goddard: On the Wisdom of Life, Man, and Mind

By Excellence Reporter on January 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.   “The drama of life is a psychological one which we bring to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts. There is no escape from our present predicament except by a […]

Abraham Joshua Heschel: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.” “The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God.”   “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. …get up in the morning and look at the world […]

John C. Bogle: On the Wisdom of Life, Virtues, and Success

By Excellence Reporter on January 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“We focus too much on things and not enough on the intangibles that make this worthwhile; too much on success and not enough on character, without which success is meaningless. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every […]

Francis A. Schaeffer: On the Wisdom and the Principles of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“And with truth comes beauty and with this beauty a freedom before God.”   “To be really Bible-Believing Christians we need to practice, simultaneously, at each step of the way, two biblical principles. One principle is that of the purity of the visible church. Scripture commands that we […]

Signs of a True Spiritual Master (part 2)

By Excellence Reporter on January 10, 2020

S: Why is it that certain Jnanis have nothing to do with money, while others, like Ramesh Balsekar and Jean Klein have large organizations? What is the reason other Jnanis have nothing to do with money, workshops, publishing books, selling tapes and have no organization to support them? […]

Jean-Paul Sartre: Man and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

You are — your life, and nothing else.   “Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. […]

Pablo Picasso: The Meaning and the Purpose of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must […]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between…”   “We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts. As death, […]

Arnie Kozak: The Meaning of Life — The Ultimate Refuge

By Excellence Reporter on January 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Excellence Reporter: Prof. Kozak, what is the meaning of life? Arnie Kozak: The pursuit for life’s meaning is often a refuge against its utter meaninglessness. Any certainty about life’s meaning, direction, and purpose, ranges from comforting illusion to outright delusion. God is a refuge. Soul is a refuge. […]

Carl Jung: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

By Excellence Reporter on January 6, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in […]

Robert M. Pirsig: On the Wisdom of Life and Values

By Excellence Reporter on January 1, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Dad?” “What?” A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. “What should I be when I grow up?” The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don’t know what to say. “Honest,” I finally say.     “One of the most moral acts is to […]

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: On the Wisdom of Life, Love, and Man

By Excellence Reporter on January 1, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things… as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.   “Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not […]

Martin Heidegger: On the Wisdom of Love, Man and Being

By Excellence Reporter on December 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

“Do we in our time have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the word ‘being’? Not at all. So it is fitting that we should raise anew the question of the meaning of Being. But are we nowadays even perplexed at our inability […]

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