To live it fully and completely, not to waste it, but to give it meaning. If we don’t give our life meaning it has none. When we live just to satisfy our limited desires and wants we can’t seem to find meaning and purpose. If we always put […]
Meaning is what calls from the depths of the soul. It is the song that sings us into life. Whether we have a meaningful life depends upon whether we can hear this song, this primal music of the sacred. The “sacred” is not something primarily religious or even […]
Excellence Reporter: Laraaji, what is the meaning of life? LARAAJI: This moment is life’s only true meaning for me. Being fully present in this moment is my connection to life’s meaning. As my mental is clear of past and future based linear thinking and my heart is light, […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. DeMaria, what is the meaning of life? Michael Brant DeMaria: The eternal question…and like all good questions, leads us on a quest (quest-i-on). The rational mind ultimately is defeated in the depths of this question. There is an infinite depth to this question and as many […]
Excellence Reporter: Mooji, what is the meaning of life? Mooji: This is perhaps one of the most seemingly profound questions within the human kingdom. Yet at closer scrutiny it is revealed as one of the most elusive in as far as coming to any one satisfactory answer. Let’s […]
Excellence Reporter: Jac, what is the meaning of life? Jack O’Keeffe: Looking for a universal meaning of life can steer you into a mid-life crisis. Look no further than to your own value system. Meaning stems from what you value. What do you regard as having value in […]
Excellence Reporter: 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 […]
Excellence Reporter: Teacher Jason, what is the meaning of life? Jason Quinn: Zen Master Seung Sahn once said, “Human life has no meaning, no reason and no choice, but we have our practice to help us understand our true self. Then, we can change no meaning to Great Meaning, […]
Excellence Reporter: Marla, what is the meaning of life? Marla Apt: To see clearly. When we remove the veil of distraction clouding our vision, we gain an unobstructed view of the threads interwoven amongst all things, connecting every part to the whole. Seeing the world around us clearly […]
Excellence Reporter: Nikki, what is the meaning of life? Nikki Costello: Integration, making connections and seeing how every aspect of your life, everything you have chosen, weaves itself together to create a colorful, inner tapestry of wholeness. A conscious wholeness, arising from within you, that guides, supports and […]
Excellence Reporter: Istvan, what is the meaning of life? Istvan Sky: My blessed service that I got from God or the Universe as a gift is to sing from the heart and heal through the universal cosmic voice. The secret of life is nothing else but this: what […]
Excellence Reporter: Morris, what is the meaning of life? Morris Goodman: This is a question that has been asked, meditated upon, thought about, and discussed since Adam and Eve. And there are probably as many answer as there are people on the earth. Why did God put us […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Goldsmith, what is the meaning of life? Neal Goldsmith: Freud said the meaning of life is to love and to work. I think that’s not a bad statement of my view: We must express, emanate ourselves in a productive generatively and we must connect with and […]
Excellence Reporter: ChauKei, what is the meaning of life? ChauKei: “The meaning of life is to remember to look at myself as a trillions of magnificent body cells open to all unknown possibilities, instead of one solid individual with a bundle of qualities.” *** ~ChauKei, World Yoga Champion http://www.ChauKeiYoga.com Copyright © 2015 […]
Excellence Reporter: Joseph, what is the meaning of life? Joseph Encinia: The meaning of life can be understood by looking at the balance of all things. Their wouldn’t be a positive without a negative, nor would there be peace without war. Throughout life we experience the good and […]
Excellence Reporter: Lama Willa, what is the meaning of life? Lama Willa Miller: I think the meaning of life has something to do with leaving the world a better place than when we arrived here. We are the stewards of a beautiful and fragile planet for this and […]
Excellence Reporter: Susan, what is the meaning of life? Susan Piver: I really don’t know. It is something that arises (and dissolves) from moment to moment and any attempt to grasp meaning seems to automatically dispel it. The greatest meaning of all seems to be in riding the […]
Excellence Reporter: Mr. Sivaraksa, what is the meaning of life? Sulak Sivaraksa: The meaning of my life is to breathe properly, in order to synchronize my head with my heart, to transform greed, hatred, and delusion in myself to be generosity, loving kindness and wisdom. Buddhism teaches us […]
Excellence Reporter: Twee, what is the meaning of life? Twee Merrigan-Goldstein: The meaning of life is to first, know the meaning of your life. And if you do not know what the meaning of your life is right now, then spend the rest of your life reflecting on […]
What is the meaning of Life? Having been steeped in eastern philosophies, it seems redundant to me to find any meaning in life. Searching for meaning, implies an interpretation of reality, through thoughts or words, which then cease to be reality. Just as Jorges Luis Borges astutely stated, […]
“It’s time to start investing in happy moments!” exclaims my wise aunt with these wise words. And she’s right! But, what is a happy moment? The meaning of life to me is to discover how to genuinely be happy and peaceful so that I can then share it […]
Excellence Reporter: Jack, what is the meaning of life? Jack Kornfield: When I was younger, I would lie on the grass on a clear night and gaze at the stars. I would imagine that I was at the very bottom of the world, held against the earth by […]
Excellence Reporter: Lama Jampa, what is the meaning of life? Lama Jampa Thaye: To begin with, we must acknowledge the wondrous opportunity afforded to us in our human life, where we have the space to determine our own fate for good or ill. Yet a moment’s further reflection […]
Excellence Reporter: Hozan, what is the meaning of life? Hozan Alan Senauke: 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 […]
What is the purpose of our lives? Why do we live? Why do we exert so much effort to survive every day, every hour, every minute, every second? Why do we spend so much money on food, clothing and shelter—on the many things we need to survive and […]
Like two sides of a hand Awareness and the Objects of awareness are one thing. Awareness is Life. It is intimate and personal. Our awareness fills our world. Each of our lives is filled with unique goals and intentions. The actualization of these goals, the manifestation of these […]
Excellence Reporter: Adi, what is the meaning of life?” Adi Carter: The meaning of life is to do great things that make yourself and others happy. Finding this happiness is our lifelong journey with new adventures constantly unfolding along the way to keep us inspired and continuously searching. […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Frawley, what is the meaning of life? David Frawley: Life is its own meaning, which is rooted in the ground of existence that we seldom notice. Life arises from our own inner being as an expression of a deeper immortal nature at our secret core. […]
Excellence Reporter: Master Low, what is the meaning of life? Albert Low: Life has no meaning: but life is intensely meaningful. For life to have a meaning would require that there be two aspects: life without a meaning and a meaning without life; somehow the two must come […]
Excellence Reporter: Rev. Joan, what is the meaning of life? Joan Jiko Halifax: “Wake up, end suffering, help others.” *** ~Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, author and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head […]
“What is the meaning of life?” I write this while on a plane returning from a family trip to some of our nation’s most beautiful National Parks. While driving 2500 miles in a car with my family of five, I experienced many Griswoldian moments, not the least of […]
Excellence Reporter: Eve, what is the meaning of life? Eve Hogan: When I was thirty I went to India to see a holy man that I had known when I was a child but hadn’t seen in nearly 25 years. In a private meeting, I sat across his […]
Excellence Reporter: Padma, what is the meaning of life? Padma Shyam: Everyone experiences happiness in life, and also sadness and suffering. At some point, if the suffering becomes too great, then some people might ask “What is really the root cause of this suffering and how might we be […]
Excellence Reporter: Desireé, what is the meaning of life? Desireé Rumbaugh: The best answer I’ve ever heard to this question was at a weekend seminar I attended about 16 years ago. The leaders put up a blank white canvas representing the meaning of life. Bottom line: there is no […]
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” —Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate in physics The most important thing that humans create is meaning. Because of our distinctive ways of valuing and intending, it is with us (or, to express it less dualistically: in us, as […]
The highest type of love, what could be seen as its summit, is called unconditional love. This is from the point of view of people who understand what love really is, and this is still only what the mind can see, what the mind can grasp. The highest […]
What is the meaning of life? The meaning of life is to love fiercely without fear, see everyone you meet with benevolent curiosity and play every day with an open heart. We must live every day fully and look back with no regret. Life is too precious to […]
Excellence Reporter: Rinpoche, what is the meaning of life? Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: From my point of view as a Buddhist teacher, the meaning of life has three dimensions. The first is basically to be a good person. This means using our precious human life to become the greatest […]
Excellence Reporter: Deborah, what is the meaning of life? Deborah Burkman: The Yogasūtras of Patañjali teach us to cultivate a stable mind, self awareness, and a deep connection to our self. This deep connection with our self helps us to move towards self actualization and a kind of maturing […]
Life is a journey. We begin the journey with a lot of expectations. We are in a rush to move forward and attain our goals. Then the struggles begin and our emotions are aroused. We are shaken up and upset. The ship we are traveling on hits waves […]
The purpose of life is to give Consciousness an opportunity to experience itself, and for us to consciously participate in our own evolution. ~Beryl Bender Birch is the Founder/Director of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and The Give Back Yoga Foundation and has been studying and teaching […]
What is the meaning of life? In the words of T.K.V. Desikachar, “The World Exists to Set us Free” The meaning of life is to live a life full of meaning, and it is up to each individual to align with truth to acheive this clarity, not to […]
For thousands of years Yoga has been clear as water on how to get closer to the Meaning of ‘Your’ life, how to reach your true self, deeper happiness, pure freedom, etc … The Yogic Wisdom give us all kinds of practical tools to progressively bring ourselves closer […]
Excellence Reporter: Paige, what is the meaning of life? Paige Held: Interestingly enough no one has ever asked me this question. It seems like such a vast, huge, deep question that could take someone’s very lifetime to answer. It also seems like this very question could change, mold, shift, […]
I think the best answer I can come up with to ‘what’s the meaning of life?’ is to admit that since my early twenties, when I began a very earnest spiritual quest, my search for ‘the meaning of life’ has been an abject failure. That is, I have […]
Excellence Reporter: Imam Rahman, what is the meaning of life? Imam Jamal Rahman: For me, the meaning of life has three strands. First, life is about the work of becoming a better human being. We exert ourselves to evolve into the fullness of our being. This is difficult […]
What is the meaning of life? The impossible question. The question easily invites us to posit the importance of human goodness upon the appearance of life. Owing to our vulnerable consciousness, we ascertain a meaning or a series of meanings to try to make sense of a fluctuating […]
What is the meaning of life? Sometimes you can go to a store and buy some kind of beautiful, amazing, technology gadget, and it says on the package, “battery is not included’. And if you pay attention to that you realize that in order for your gizmo […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Nelson, what is the meaning of life? Roger Nelson: It sounds like a simple question, meriting a simple answer. And yet, there is such depth as to draw us in, to make us see that in the simplicity there is a great richness. It presents […]
As a teenager I wondered a lot what the meaning of life was. I knew it had something to do with helping others, but didn’t know exactly what. It wasn’t until I met the Buddha’s teachings as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that this became clear to […]
Excellence Reporter: David, what is the meaning of life? David Brazier: Life is a search for purity of heart, though, in fact, it is not found by searching for it. Everybody has at least a touch of it now and again. That is something to celebrate. But even […]
You contain within you a very great story: the meaning of life is for you to remember that story; to remember that you are a powerful expression of Creation’s limitless and dazzlingly creative narrative. To be you is phenomenal and rest assured Life made no mistake when it […]
“What is the meaning of life?” is one of those large questions whose importance is obvious yet which seems to dissolve once we try to provide an explicit answer to it. My own experiences of gaining some kind of glimmer of an answer have always been of the […]
The meaning of life is to be HAPPY! When I’m running 24 hours, I’m happy! I pass through 3 stages: I feel my body and it hurts, but I keep going and learn with my sensations! I believe in myself! I’m happy! I forget about my body and […]
Excellence Reporter: Bonnie, what is the meaning of life? Bonnie Greenwell: It seems to me that we can best think of ourselves as verbs, not nouns — we are aware fields of energy moving in an illusion of time, having no conscious choice regarding when we enter and very […]
Excellence Reporter: Amy, what is the meaning of life? Amy Lansky: Much of my writing about homeopathy, consciousness, and now the ideas underlying Hawaiian shamanism, deals with the higher energy bodies. These include not only the so-called etheric body — the vehicle for the vital force (chi, prana, […]
“What is the meaning of life?” is a wonderful question because it has no final or fixed answer. Meaning is a purely mental or conceptual experience, and so it is always changing and evolving. This can mean that the question unfolds in new and ever-changing ways. It also […]
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