What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

The most important things in life:

1. Love God with all your heart.

2. Love your neighbor as you love God.

These are what Jesus Christ said were the greatest commandments of all.

Answer 2

You are actually asking two different questions:

1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What is the meaning of life?

By way of example -- if I hold up an empty water balloon and ask you what it's purpose is, the most basic answer is 'water transportation via aerial mode.' That's all the purpose is -- it is a reason for existing. If it is sitting on a shelf in a store, it has that purpose, if it's in my hand filled and ready to go, it has that purpose.

Meaning, however, is something that is ascribed to an object. I fill such a balloon with water so that I can tag my mother during the next family reunion summer-fun party. That is now its meaning -- joy and playfulness. It did not have that meaning on the store shelf. There, at the store, its meaning was profit -- the owner of the store hoped someone would buy it and thus the owner would make profit off it.

So to go back to your questions -- what is the purpose of life? It has none. To have a purpose means that an intelligent being must have created it. Purpose is an intended direction, a best-suited direction, and life has no creator nor an intended direction. Life is inherantly purposeless.

What is the meaning of life? Because we are self-aware, even in acknowledging the purposelessness of life, we can ascribe a meaning to it. For many people, this meaning is little more than that they hope to live day by day. Some people make religion their meaning, others knowledge, others intentionally make hate or cruelty their meaning -- no one said all meaning has to be good. It just gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and defy our purposelessness.

Answer 3

Life is it's OWN meaning. Live your life everyday as though it was to be your last day on the Earth. Treat others the way YOU wish to be treated. Take responsibility for your WON actions and try to make amends whenever you screw up and do someone else wrong. Work on yourself, Become a better person in every way. You'll NEVER attain perfection BUT, you CAN better yourself and work towardss perfection. Do the best that you can and accept that you ARE human and will have shortcomings. Forgive yourself for your failures, pick up the peices and try to do better. That's ALL that anyone can do. Good luck with your life, and just LIVE it.

Brightest Blessings,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

It's not really something that can be adequately described with words but imagine losing everything, all your money, all your friends, your family, your health, everything you care about. Imagine yourself sitting in a cold lonely place completely rejected by any semblance of god or any lesser entity that might have mercy on your. Then imagine looking up and seeing one small thing that makes everything ok. Whatever that thing is it's not the meaning of life but it's your key to finding it.

It's not really the meaning of life that's important but the seach for meaning that matters.

Answer 5

In the humans and some intelligent animals means consciousness, feelings, thougths and passions, But life is also present in vegetables and in microform of specimens. In all of them does exist only one thing in common: born, breed and death. Life is the chance God (or nature) gives us to act in a real environment, either rational or irrationals along a short period of time.

Answer 6

The meaning of life in dictionary is all the living thing in the world

Answer 7

The meaning of life;
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.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Life is but a walking shadow. A poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.

Answer 10

O my heedless self! If you would like to understand to some degree the aim of your life and its nature, its apparent form and meaning, and the perfect happiness in your life, then look! The aims of your life can be summarized as the following nine articles:

The first is that you should weigh up on the scales of the senses established in your body the bounties stored up in the treasuries of the Divine Mercy, and offer general thanks on behalf of all your body.

The second is that, through the feelings, tendencies and faculties embedded in your nature, you should discover the hidden treasuries—the works and manifestations—of the Divine Sacred Names, and recognize the Most Holy One through those Names.

The third is that in this place of exhibition—the world—you should consciously display through your life before the whole creation the subtle manifestations of the Divine Names in your being [such as your senses, faculties and abilities].

The fourth is that you should proclaim your worship and servant-hood to the Court of the Creator’s Lordship verbally and through the tongue of your disposition.

The fifth is that you should do like a soldier who, appearing on ceremonial occasions before the king with the decorations he has received from him, displays the marks of the king’s favor towards him. You should consciously adorn yourself in the “jewels” of subtle human senses and faculties embedded in your being through the manifestations of the Divine Names and present yourself to the view of the Eternal Witness.

The sixth is that the main purpose for the creation of living beings is that they should worship and glorify their Creator. They fulfill this duty by submission to Him—by obeying, consciously or unconsciously, the laws He established for their lives. Thus, you should consciously observe the obedience of living beings to their Creator—their glorification and worship of Him—and reflect on them and acknowledge them through testifying to them.

The seventh is that, through taking as units of measurement the small samples of attributes like the partial knowledge, power and will given to your life, you should recognize the absolute Attributes and sacred qualities of the Majestic Creator. For example, seeing that by using your partial knowledge, will and power, you have made a beautiful, well-ordered house for yourself , you should know that the Maker of this palace of the universe is powerful, wise and capable to the degree it is greater than your house.

The eighth is that you should understand the speech of each being in the world in its particular tongue concerning the Oneness of the Creator, the Lordship of the Maker.

The ninth is that from your impotence and weakness, and poverty and neediness, you should infer the degrees of the manifestations of the Divine Power and the Richness of the Lord. Just as the pleasures and varieties of food are understood or distinguished in relation to the degrees of hunger and kinds of need, so too you should understand the degrees of the infinite Divine Power and Richness through your infinite impotence and poverty.