Know Thyself through YOUR MEANING OF LIFE
I do not believe there is a universal meaning of life. I don’t think my goal is to figure out the meaning of ‘it all’. I agree with Joseph Campbell when he was interviewed by Bill Moyers in The Power of Myth on PBS:
Joseph Campbell:
People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that is what we are really seeking. I think what we are seeking is an experience of being alive, so that the life experiences that we have on the purely physical plane will have resonance within that are those of our own innermost being and reality and so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it is all finally about and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves.
Bill Moyers:
Myths are clues?
Joseph Campbell:
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
Bill Moyers:
What we are capable of knowing within?
Joseph Campbell:
Yes.
I think I am responsible for the energy expelled on making my life meaningful. To be able to do this, I must know WHO I AM. What I think, what I feel. You are different than anyone who came before you, different than anyone who will come after, and you are the only being who will go through your collection of experiences. I think it better to figure out what your differences are rather than fixating on fitting a mold and disliking those outside it.
To me that would be a life with few regrets, and that is what I think the point is, to have as few regrets as possible. That constitutes ‘meaning’ to me.
I don’t believe anyone on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time ‘thumbing through’ on their phone.
What’s YOUR meaning of life?
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