'Meaning' Articles
You may research meaning for years going from one thing to another becoming obsessive in search. But, you sought other. You sought in one place what is everywhere. Meaning is written into this world like a great book. Meaning is often underplayed in the world. We seek meaning or feel we do, but it seems the majority of what we seek is not meaning but validation for meanings we adopted, and meaning is your reality.
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” Morrie Schwartz
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” Anais Nin (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
Meaning in Relationship
What is meaning and why is it important? To a degree the consensus is love. The common ground we can all stand on. It can be diversified and thus enriched, but still there is the connection. The spectrum of meaning is synonymous with the range of beliefs and these do vary. But one of the most important aspects of bonding is being able to believe in the person you have a relationship with, thus some need for a common context. Agreed upon interpretations of at least some experience. When you engage a person, you are engaging your experience of the… Seek More
Shape Shifter
Some people faint when overloaded with new things. The resulting stress they don’t assimilate well. Their meaning is being lost, and they often screen the reality of the new experience out all together. Blue screen of death, does not compute! Now imagine a person who triggers that in people even in their formative years. Routinely seeing that blue screen of death in peoples eyes. What would their resulting world view be like? “You shouldn’t be” Neuro-plasticity varies widely. I have a developmental disorder that makes things too mutable. It allows for new ideas to be incorporated, to a degree, and… Seek More
Meaning is Your Reality
Tell me what you think anything means. I will describe your world. Sound boastful? Any takers? Our meaning is our reality. “I’m living, breathing. With each breath it’s a new world. How can I grasp at that? I try and try to grasp a meaning, but all I get is more questions.” You grasp it in making that very statement. For you, creation is meaning. The seeking is meaning. You are a positive person at this point in your life, and are likely rocked by experience. But at this point, your well of resilience runs deep. Probably engage and re engage,… Seek More
Grow Your Reality
Ever witness people arguing over what is ultimately a matter of syntax? And in fact they were saying the same thing? It even grows very negative. I would say in a sense it’s the rule with few exceptions. The evil of semantics. Would you rather be right, or happy? It seems people would rather be right, thus the stasis and it isn’t even about ego. It is the environmental scanning, reality checking. They are in the panic of normal life so they very much have to be right. Their normal life depends on being right. You can remove all boundaries,… Seek More
True Freedom
Meaning is often underplayed in the world, even among seekers. People enjoy freedom or their idea of freedom, but the meaning of freedom is lost. They speak of no barriers, but freedom has meaning in the context of barriers. Seekers seek to transcend, but even ‘transcend’ has meaning in the context of what you feel you are growing beyond. We seek meaning or feel we do, but it seems the majority of what we seek is not meaning but validation for meanings we adopted. In seeking validation all too often meaning is lost, and what can be validated in one… Seek More
No One Mind
They say no news is good news, and one of our two primal fears is loud noise, a.k.a. news. It is a species wide fear, but humans are supposedly creatures of knowledge and communication. Leading the normal life is a drive, but more news makes the normal life pretty dang weird does it not? Nature behaves beyond human expectation and even human nature behaves beyond human expectation, thus we surprise ourselves. Sometimes it is meditative to just sit and listen, to let the meaning of it all wash in? But what of the danger of solipsism? You can focus on an… Seek More
A Nexus
Could you tell the difference between a void and a nexus? Maybe you are already there. Maybe your dreams, your thoughts, your very incarnation are a nexus that is aligned and can realign as is its nature. So how does multiplicity offend the unity? How does your individual self fall short in any way you don’t choose it to? If you choose it to then why? In that “why” is meaning. Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless, but that we are powerful beyond measure. We indeed are, but we fear and we demonize fear. Putting fear beyond… Seek More
