What is the meaning of life?? why do we exist??

Answer 1

I ask this same question once in a meditation. The answer came clear as a bell.

It said I have placed you here to learn the true meaning of Love. What ever it was that was answering then told me something that really set me back. It said that I felt the way I did about certain people because I did not understand the true meaning of love. I protested and said that I did my best to love all of the people who were deserving of love.

It replied "yes that is your misunderstanding. You see love as something that you dole out in tiny little portions here and there to people who you have judged to be worthy of it. This is not love at all, it is only judgment". This stopped me dead in my tracks. I suddenly realized that what it was saying to me was true. This realization brought me to tears. It went
on and told me, "You treat love as though there is some shortage of it. It is not something that you can run out of. The more love that you give, the more love that there is in the world. Its that simple. The only way that there can be a shortage of it is if you hoard it and keep it to yourself."

It went on to explain, that "this is what Jesus was trying to tell you when he asked you to turn the other cheek, to judge not and to love your neighbor. He made no exceptions in these things that he requested of you. Why are you making exceptions, and judging some as worthy of love and others as not? Jesus fully intended for you to apply this love that you are to all, in a universal manner without any judgment of any sort". By this time the tears Were flowing freely. I was crying because for the first time in my life I Understood what the message Jesus left for us in the bible actually meant.

This has become my truth. I can't say what yours is for sure, but I have a feeling that it is probably similar.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

I wrote an essay about the meaning of life and it goes something like this.


What is the meaning of life?.. As I was sitting on my desk, trying to accumulate all the knowledge I have for me to be able to give justice to this question, i thought, what defenition of life do I know?.. If I would refer to the dictionary, then life is the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. But I think there's more to life than just scientific whatsoever. I think life is far beyond, what science can explain.

In my opinion, my life is very important.. how important?.. well, life is like role-playing.. Its like, an epic movie, without rehearsals and I am the center hero. Without me, there will be no great achievements, no impressive battles, no dramatic encounters.. without me, there wouldn't be a story at all.. THATS how important I am.

God gave me this role to play. God also gave me free will and its up to me, how I would like to portray my role. I can make my role more attractive. I can tell the truth. I can taste. I can smell. I can feel pain. I can't make all things happen. I can't please everybody. I can do anything that I want in this world.

But the best part of my role is that I can love. I can do great things. I can help those in need. I can do many good deeds in this small place that we live in. I will value peoples lives. I can even save lives if my knowledge permits me to. and lastly, I have strong faith in God.

And if I attain these celebrated things, I will be awarded something that no amount of money could buy. The honor of eternity beside God.

But only hero's are awarded this enchanted experience. So, be the hero in your own epic story.

Answer 4

Our purpose here in life is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Here are a couple of verses which tell us of our purpose: The first is 1 Corinthians 10: 31: "Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." The second is Psalm 73:25-26: "Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon the earth that I desire beside thee. (26) My flesh and heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." Throughout the Bible there are verses which declare that our chief end in this world is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

Answer 5

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 6

Are you kidding?
When are we all going to realize that mystery is at the heart of all philosophical, scientific, and religious pursuits?
When are we going to be comfortable with that Knowledge of Mystery?
When are we going to stop searching and come to profound acceptance and AWE of all that JUST IS?
Can we move on, please?
Can you call it the Tao and get on with life?

Answer 7

What is the meaning of life for a butterfly, or even a gazelle? Is our purpose any different from theirs?

Answer 8

no meaning, no point is one answer. could go on forever with possibilities, but this is mine at this point in time. you have to discover the answer for yourself.

as unto why do we exist, it was an accident and GOD did not know how to fix it.

Answer 9

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

Answer 10

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Love & blessing's