They advise us to turn towards it, attend to it, nurture it. Foremost, they all point to the Divine that threads through us and our world. The Way to meaning has been provided to us by spiritual guides from all traditions. It takes some intention, effort and discipline on our part: self-questioning, introspection, meditation, reading, and the will to make our lives purposeful. Purpose and meaning, intimately connected, are not handed to us on a platter. The human condition, with its waves of up and down cannot be circumvented because it is essential to our textured experience of life in all its fullness from dark to light. The meaning of life must encompass, include and transcend those times when the answer to the above question is nada.
When we are at peace, happy, connected, we forget to ask this question because we are busy doing what we were born to do – experiencing life. How often in tired, depressed moments we ask, what is the meaning of life? We only ask this question when we don’t feel there is any.
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