Excellence Reporter: John, what is the meaning of life? John Perkins: The meaning of life for me is to do my part in helping to promote the greatest revolution in human history, the Consciousness Revolution. This is a revolution that has been part of the prophecies of many of the […]
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: 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: 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: 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: Dr. Hameroff, what is the meaning of life? Stuart Hameroff: The meaning of life is to feel good by resonating with the universe. In the view I take on the nature of consciousness with Sir Roger Penrose, feelings are related to quantum processes in the fundamental […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Wolf, what is the meaning of life? Fred Alan Wolf: I believe that life has one basic meaning and only one meaning: Discover your true inner, hidden nature; who is that elephant in the room? In essence, be in the mystery and discover its magical […]
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: 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: 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. […]
What is the meaning of life? We often think of “meaning” as having to do with understanding. Although we live and move and have our being in mystery, ego wants to catch the symbolism of a word or a phrase or an event so as to feel it […]
“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: 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 […]
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 […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Wallace, what is the meaning of life? B. Alan Wallace: Issues of meaning, values, and ethics are considered by many to be subjective in nature, determined simply by one’s preferences, in contrast to the objective truths revealed by scientific inquiry. I find this split between […]
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 […]
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, […]
Excellence Reporter: Prof. Combs, what is the meaning of life? Allan Combs: There are a thousand meanings to life, as there are a thousand moments to the day. In the morning it is good to chop wood and carry water. At night to read, enjoy friendships and loved […]
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 […]
.Excellence Reporter: Phil, what is the meaning of life? Phil Cousineau: The perennial question about the meaning of life is a riddle posed to us the moment we first become conscious. The very idea of meaning is as puzzling as Winston Churchill’s description of Russia as a riddle […]
“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 […]
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, […]
The greatest leap forward in human consciousness will come with a deep awareness of pure unlimited love Excellence Reporter: Professor Post, what is the meaning of life? Stephen G. Post: One thing is for certain – human beings need meaning or they perish. Sometimes, in desperation, they seek meaning in […]
In my experience, “What is the meaning of life?” is a question that probably cannot be answered adequately by any one person for the whole of humanity. Even given that limitation, it still does seem to me that the determination of what is “meaningful about living and being […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Schlitz, what is the meaning of life? Marilyn Schlitz: “The key to finding meaning in life is learning to live fully in the paradox of death. By making peace with our own mortality we can transform fear into an inspiration for living and dying well.” *** […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Artress, what is the meaning of life? Rev. Lauren Artress: “Life is a path you walk to find and realize your divine purpose on this plane.” *** ~Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress is a Canon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Episcopal Priest, Founder of Veriditas.www.LaurenArtress.com Copyright 2015 […]
Excellence Reporter: Professor Nagler, what is the meaning of life? Michael N. Nagler: After many years of meditation, and having taught a seminar on this subject for fifteen years as well, I have come to the realization that Gandhi answered this question perhaps most simply (I paraphrase): ‘The meaning […]
I began my search for life’s meaning when I was four years old and experienced two life-altering events: The first occurred while I was mountain hiking with my family. Our trail’s dry earth suddenly crumbled underneath my feet and broke off the cliff, taking me with it. I fell several feet, […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Blackmore, what is the meaning of life? Susan Blackmore: We live in a pointless universe; an ultimately meaningless universe. Yet, as my Zen teacher used to say: “Nothing matters and everything must go Yet love is having the heart touched in the valleys of suffering” We make […]
Excellence Reporter: John, what is the meaning of life? John Freedom: There is obviously no single answer to this question. There are as many ‘Meanings of Life” as there are people; and each person will answer this question differently. One reason why some people feel depressed is because they may think/feel […]
Excellence Reporter: Hunt, what is the meaning of life? Hunt Henion: We traded in our God-given capacity for knowing for the ability to question and find out what’s real for ourselves. We each explore in our own way, and we each lose control in our own way, looking for the […]
Excellence Reporter: Don Trent, what is the meaning of life? FOUR ARROWS: The Meaning of Life is first a Great Mystery. Once this is accepted and embraced wholeheartedly, it can become the foundation for an adventure in discovery and humility. All that is required is intentionally and intuitively realizing […]
Excellence Reporter: Dr. Tiller, what is the meaning of life? William A. Tiller: My working hypotheses regarding the meaning of life are: To grow in coherence, to develop our gifts of intentionality and thus become co-creators with our spiritual parents and As we learn in academic knowledge, in […]
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