~by Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski Day by day we venture closer; we turn the handle of the door and enter. Room upon room opens in the vastness of Your Palace reaching the heavens and pouring water to the earth through fountains hovering mid-air. Hu¹ would have thought we could […]
Nicolae Tanase: Dr. Axelrod, what is the meaning of life? David. B. Axelrod: For some, the meaning of life is a who-done-it, a pursuit of magical thinking asserting belief above reason—which creation myth, which god, which story best satisfies a society’s needs at any given time. Faith begins […]
Myriads of questions flood in and out of our personal space twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Each of these questions is fundamentally important within its own time-frame, and the answer inadvertently aims at being as coherent and definitive as possible. In fact, this is the […]
I recently asked my writing students to write their obituary. An obituary usually cites the external achievements of a life, with the implication that they amounted to the value of that individual and the source of that person’s meaning. When you write your own obituary, however, you are […]
What is the meaning of life? Why is it full of strife, when we all crave peace and love? Is there a God above, that cares for you and for me and hears us when we plea, protect us from all evil and the one called, devil. Is […]
What we all share is “awareness”. We are part of an intertwined web, the more we move there, the more we get to experience a wider range of understanding of this life. Hope and Love is the meaning of life. ~Akiane Kramarik is an American poet and artist. […]
There is one thing in this world which you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there is nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life. It […]
Nicolae Tanase: J. Ivy, what is the meaning of life? J. Ivy: Immediately when I hear this question lifelong thoughts fire off. I find myself soul searching, thinking of those moments when I discovered myself, my purpose, my mission and those later moments in life when discovery occurred […]
Nicolae Tanase: Gerald, what is the meaning of life? Gerald Hausman: It was my father who told me that people do things because they like them. That covered all, he said. “They do it because they like it.” “What do they do?” I asked at age seven. My […]
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: to love more, and be happy. ~Hafiz Here we all are on this lush rock of a planet spiraling through space! What are the odds? Why have we come so far and endured so much to […]
I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences. They may not all be that pleasant, but nobody promised you a rose garden. But more than likely if you do dare, what […]
Nicolae Tanase: Will, what is the meaning of life? Will Clipman: That’s a question with no answer! I believe that what makes a lifetime meaningful, moment by moment, is to continue to ask the question. The more certain one is that one knows the meaning of life, the further […]
Life is a bowl of soup. With little control over the quality of the ingredients-bits of beef, chicken, carrots, potatoes, onions and all that-we prepare it, eat it, drink and enjoy it. Satisfied, we sigh, stretch and burp. In the end we travel on up to add our […]
Nicolae Tanase: Peter, what is the meaning of life? Peter Mortimer: Is the crackle of a wood fire Is the spray of a peeled orange Is the radiator warmth of a stroked horse Is the tiny sock on the washing line Is the plop of a raindrop in […]
Nicolae Tanase: C. JoyBell, what is the meaning of life? C. JoyBell C.: Thank you for inviting me to answer this question, it is an honour. When you asked, “What is the meaning of life?” the first thought that came to mind, was, I wonder what his definition […]
Nicolae Tanase: Elizabeth, what is the meaning of life? Elizabeth Weber: I think of it all as one giant puzzle. Each of us have our own piece to fit in. If we are true to the calling of our Souls and the gifts that we came here with, […]
Nicolae Tanase: William, what is the meaning of life? William Parker: Let me begin my answer by asking a question: if you could go back in time to August 6, 1945 and it was your job to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. You had two choices, […]
Nicolae Tanase: Lenita, what is the meaning of life? Lenita Vangellis: The eternal question that sooner or later, every soul asks. I asked this question early on in my life as a deeper aspect of what I had come to know as self, couldn’t make sense of the […]
Nicolae Tanase: Kari, what is the meaning of life? Kari Hohne: I find meaning with nature as my teacher. The sun offers a curriculum of how to rise each day, activating a chain reaction of abundance by simply shining. Light the fire, smile, see how the world responds. […]
Nicolae Tanase: Dr. Bryant-Davis, what is the meaning of life? Thema Bryant-Davis: The meaning of life is to use all that is within us to live fully with love, gratitude, and creativity. We are to honor God, ourselves, and humanity by showing up and thriving as we apply ourselves […]
“The spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man’s life, and it is the sole purpose of being.” The Reality of Life is Life itself, whose beginning is not in the womb, and whose ending is not in the grave. For the years that pass are naught […]
Life has no particular meaning. Or it is far beyond my ability to see the entirety of it. The question is: what will I do with the life that has been given to me? Will I serve life, and all that is in it? Or will I wait […]
I haven’t led a perfect life; far from it. This poem was inspired after a particularly unsettling experience that made me question my own sanity in regards to the ability to discern right from wrong and all the questions raised in response. I try to find the path; […]
A quivering in energy, like the uncontrollable laughter of an infant, I grow from innocence, rising from that knowing place deep within the belly. In abandoned glee, I connect with the universe. Breathing, breathing in deeply until the warmth of the stirring sings out in joyous shrieks. Toddle […]
If you can forsake, and leave your Mansion; of achievements far behind And smile as those numbers cremate; and dance the breeze in glitter glee If you can work with leaders, free; but vanity’s men succeed, combined, And defend those few but honest minds; embracing truth in all […]
What is life? A three word question that takes a very long inquisition and a lot more explanation by which answer may be given by a ‘Principle of exclusion’ What do one seriously expects in life? The simple and filtered answer is happiness But where do we search […]
I find mysleff being more quiet these days embraced by the silence of solitude, maybe what I am doing is trying to reach stars that shine right above me and catch them with my eyes so they will twinkle as I look at another and somehow share that […]
We have all sat with someone we love dearly and held tightly onto their hand at least once… Right? Have you ever done so while saying goodbye? Have you given them a kiss or a tender hug? I am fairly sure we all have. But… Have you ever done all […]
This world’s left me weary I have seen all there is to see All I long for is my family To walk this journey with me I have kissed the night Watched stars warm the winter sky Felt the sway of love at first sight And grappled and […]
The body, The learning station Studio for your studying soul Brought everything together Taught vitality, Taught control The senses, Embedded sensor Converts hertz to light and sound Interprets inconsistencies of truth Taught balance, dumb or confound If something is wrong you taste it you smell or you can even feel […]
When does death come? When your cherished memories become irrelevant When your dreams fail to kindle fire in your heart When you cannot recognize your old friends When the world around you becomes predictable and dull. When does life come? When you erase old memories to create new […]
Awakened by the chill of dawn I bundle up Mesmerized by jagged mountains standing guard on the horizon Their starkness penetrates the early morning blue Sharp pointed peaks pierce the crisp air And crack open the new sun A flow of yolky yellow Glides gradually down sheer rugged […]
When a relaxed spirit meditates and dreams, immensity seems to expect images of immensity. Gaston Bachelard For life is beyond, in the life that wakes. Edmond Jabes I have often been disconcerted by the way we bandy around the word ’life’, as if by doing […]
There are many meanings to life, and how life works, often unexpected things happen, out of the blue challenging you in ways you were never able to comprehend, until the end. Life is about compassion, compromise, understanding, strength, love and most importantly sacrifice, without those nourishments, “A flower […]
The meaning of life is… to live a meaningful life! It’s to leave a mark on Earth. By expressing ourselves by writing poetry, telling stories and listening well. life is an art that includes inventing, discovering, exploring and healing. To learn and to teach: art, skills, experience and […]
I have just watched the honey-tinted sun fade from my sight, it sank like a ship beneath the ocean horizon in a seascape of resplendent beauty. Now, I can see the first star reviving itself in the thriving scene of night. The overwhelming scope of space and time […]
As time motions within passing moments, through lungs, through tree limb. The breaths of a lifetime intertwine, With the currents and swelling of eternity. As eyes catch this cycle, hearts give it purpose. Formless and open, they stay. – Softly whisking away a final breath, Only to resurrect […]
life is a burlesque— a yearning lusting seething punch line of strained absence. too long the hand leads the heart to thorny wreaths atop a bathetic catastrophe— worms carol the Joker while anvil nightmares rouge the earth with blood— grinning serpents wring the grail to flow manna through […]
The snow falls like broken memories Heaping into a huge mount of time That blows away like loose pages of diaries To a place unmemorable yet sublime. Flashes of thoughts of end of journey Pass my mind as I travel Across this path of life carved and walked […]
Life has no meaning at all If we try live it by our self’s Our souls are full of sin And will lead us to death Life has no meaning at all If we try to make it all alone Time doesn’t last forever Then all is so […]
You are the meaning to life Loving you has been my life my caring, and dear sweet wife. You are the meaning I live for my heart, and soul to give. Without you there’s no meaning only more constant dreaming. To my last breadth I will take your […]
The Stages Of Life At the age of 79 on my deathbed I sat, My heart laid out a thousand number of thoughts, But I was not able to express even one of that. A whole video of my highlighted life my heart made, I saw all those […]
Nicolae Tanase: Dear Dorothy, what is the meaning of life? Dorothy Walters: I think the “meaning” of life is well beyond our understanding. However, the purpose of life is to find ways to return to our divine origin. Yeats said, “Man can embody truth, but never know it..” […]
A well-beaten path, most choose to tread the sheep of humanity in conformity’s bed. They live an illusion in the land of pretend. Trapped in a box they can not transcend. Cold iron shackles of free will they self bind harboring their freedom, within guarded mind. In knowing […]
As for meaning in life — there is none. The secret of life is there is no secret. Not only is there no meaning, THERE CAN be no meaning to life. Meaning is something only an individual can erect. The cosmos is just there. Were one to posit […]
I am a gift Neatly locked in the Pandora’s box Unpacked meticulously only by The Eternal hand And then released, to live, or rather make someone live I am Life Recognized first in a newborn’s cries Welcomed happily with cheers and ecstatic claps But when I leave, all […]
A Love Song Most of all I have loved living you life and you have loved me back and brought me gifts Sweet gifts and others of harsher flavors which I tried or which tried me but I could not digest but do understand I am a speck […]
What’s my meaning of life? I truly never asked myself that. I don’t believe there is a meaning in Life, there surely is an Purpose of life, and why we are on this World. I write Poetry and like to make someone Smile. But is that my meaning […]
I can never be no-one, because I am the only one! Who is that unique me that’s replaceable by none! You say you could easily replicate me as my clone, But it would not be a real me, only one mere drone, I live in singularity, yet the […]
Take life for an escalator Go both through its ups and downs Ride in it like on an elevator Expect both smiles and frowns Take life for a suspense novel You and I unaware what the next day would hold Meditate and muse, the book of life do […]
What is the meaning of life? A verisimilitude journey of kin, kith and vibes, To flow with rivulet to meet its ultimate guide, To dig into each moment to have a larger view on this roller coaster ride, Heal, nurture may be little stiff with each didactic stride, […]
You were born a star child Born to Be, To be Wild, To be Free. Stars becoming the human cosmic obsession Suspicions arise in my head, wondering How they came to be our possessions. Are we the keeper of the stars? Are these the souls that are lost […]
And I would not disturb the meaning of life nor infiltrate the order in which for seeking out, that nothing existed before I were born. What from the past can such godly create? An awareness for all suffering would suffice, to say, kindly nature would turn to change us. Give to life what is rightly won, then take us, bring upon temptation like nature does in life, surviving on replenish, and should we suffice, […]
Life’s a treasure that we should value Yes, it is precious, so real and true A time may come that you might feel blue It’s difficult to start life anew It is not a thing that can be sold It is more valuable than a gold There are […]
What Life Means To Me I used to believe that life was just breathing But recently I learned a truer meaning There is so much more to life than just breath For you can have breath and still be right there with death Everything you do at living […]
What is the meaning of life? I believe the answer is in the question The meaning of life is to have a meaning full life too much of life is spent preparing for tomorrow And regreting yesterday when I die I hope that my life will have shown […]
Well in my opinion the meaning of life is to write one or two good poems and get as much bum as one can. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. The aim of life is self-development. To realize […]
The greatest strength, grace and meaning of life radiates form faith. This is something which defies verification in terms of rational logical and expression: If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: […]
