Meaning
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Definition
Meaning is the instinct that makes life possible. When it is abandoned, individuality loses its redeeming power. [1]
Applications
When meaning is denied, hatred for life and the wish for its destruction inevitably rules [1].
Rules for Using Your Sense of Meaning to Calibrate Your Progress
You can use your sense of meaning to calibrate your progress through life, but there are rules. You have to aim at the highest possible good that you can conceive. Now, and that’s subject to update because what the hell do you know… but you know, START by aiming at the star you can see, rather than the dimmer one you can’t yet perceive. And then you decide you’re going to do that honestly, right, that’s a big decision. So, the first decision I think in some sense is a decision of love. You’re going to decide that being is worthwhile and that you’re going to work for its betterment, and that’s a decision that’s based on love. And the second decision is based on truth. Having made that decision, you’re going to play a STRAIGHT GAME. Having made those TWO decisions, I think that you can allow your sense of meaning to calibrate your pathway. [Citation Needed]
Interpretations
The meaning of life is proportional to the amount of responsibility that you take.
If you're doing what you should do, it feels meaningful.
If you push out against life and confront it, in a process of continuous transformation, there you find the essential meaning of life
See Also
References
[1] Quote from Maps of Meaning.
