...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.
Derek RaymondTag: death meaning depression desperation
. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying ‘No’ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life.
A.C. GraylingTag: life meaning suicide philosophical question philosphy grayling
Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: life goals success journey meaning trials hopes richelle richelle-goodrich
I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .
Erik ChristianEen doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.
Renate DorresteinTag: meaning
Circumstance points to deeper meaning.
T.F. HodgeTag: meaning-of-life meaning circumstances deeper circumstances-and-attitude
Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.
Hans KüngTag: meaning manifestly
Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these things.
Thornton WilderWhen man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living.
The recognition of a problem is the first step to its solution— We are not "fallen" angels, nor were we "created" perfect.
On the contrary, we are the product of millions of years of an unpurposed evolution. We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our primitive ancestry—the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the infinitesimal to the mammoth—from the worm to the dinosaur.
Tag: purpose understanding meaning evolution problems importance realization solutions place-in-universe
When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost
David MitchellTag: life meaning-of-life journey meaning
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