If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: consciousness truth reality vision meaning-of-life self-awareness awareness enlightenment purpose-of-life know-thyself
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.
Tags: life consciousness truth reality acceptance buddhism purpose meaning-of-life zen meaning self-awareness self-knowledge awareness perfection purpose-of-life awakening know-thyself
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.
Clarence DarrowTags: money happiness purpose meaning-of-life time death pleasure meaning
Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?
John EldredgeTags: passion meaning-of-life adventure boredom
Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
Duncan William GibbonsTags: life happiness meaning-of-life thought living
I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s been told what we’re all celebrating.
Beatrice JamesTags: present meaning-of-life philosophical inspirational-life philosophy-of-life
I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.
I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.
Tags: life meaning-of-life
As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
Rebecca WellsTags: life meaning-of-life life-lessons life-and-living life-philosophy
Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attempts to answer such questions does not mean its answers are correct. And such answers never seem to achieve any consensus. What is the meaning of life? Your answer is as good as mine--or just as bad.
G.M. JacksonTags: science meaning-of-life explanations consensus science-and-religion
Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best answers from the worst. The principle difference between religion and science is as follows: the religious make stuff up to explain what they don't understand. Scientists do the same, but scientists run their ideas through a very rigorous filter that consists of logic, experimentation and peer review. Such a filter eliminates the worst ideas and preserves the best.
So if a scientist answers the question, "What is the meaning of life," his answer, at the very worst, is no less valid than an answer that comes from the highest witchdoctor or priest.
Tags: science meaning-of-life science-and-religion experiments
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