you may have all that you want but nothing really matters. I search for the meaning , the real one!
2007-08-24 01:21:11 · 40 answers · asked by butterfly 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Look within yourself, that is where the true answers are for you. Do not rely on the outside world to find all your answers. You know much more than you give yourself credit for.
2007-08-24 09:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is the first step on the road to "being" your authentic Self. The truth about what you long for - remembering/identifying -within- the ideal experience that will give you an eternal sense of 'aliveness'. It is a usually a gradual awakening. Be patient with yourself. Developing that "observer" state of consciousness, you'll become more aware over time what you do NOT want and giving it up will allow it to be replaced by what has genuine value to the real you.
Reality mirrors mind. Doubt what your learned ego perceives as the only choices available. Change your mind, change your world.
2007-08-24 02:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only meaning that you are going to get out of life is the meaning that you choose to give it. The only help I can give you are some subjective thoughts of my own on the subject.
I am American Indian. When I was a child about 8 or ten. My mother decided that I needed spiritual teaching so she sent me to a fundamentalist christian Sunday school. They tried to tell me that if I did not bow down and worship their god He would send me to an eternity in hell. After struggling for a while with the concept of eternity (Quite a subject for a child of 8 or 10) I decided that there was no way I could worship a god that would do that to anyone. I began a quest to learn as much as possible about the world's religion and philosophy. I have boiled it down to this. It is terribly unfortunate that the early christian church made a pagan demigod out of Jesus. If you separate him from the church you will find that his teachings are very profound. Every bit the equal of the other great teacher Siddhartha Gautama. They both taught Karmic law. Extend your love to those whose life you touch and that love will reflect back to you 100 fold and fill that void. Knowledge is power and God is love. I give you this with love.
2007-08-30 18:34:11 · answer #3 · answered by JOE N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems empty because in wont necessarily bring you happiness and their is always something better out their so if you want nothing more and you still have a hart time living with what you have learn to live with out what you don't have.
life has no real ultimate meaning other than what we give it. if we feel everything is empty that is because it is. nothing is intrinsically itself not even ourselves because their is no I we could possibly pin down as us IE if our body is us how can organ donation work or where is the cow in this stake?? if we look for meaning we wont find it but if we live in the moment to moment experiences we can only rind what was right in-front of our eyes.
2007-08-24 02:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are searching for the meaning in all that is around you, your search is in the wrong place.
The meaning to what you are seeking is in you. You feel empty because you have not yet discovered what it is that truly makes you who you are and what you want to be. Look inside and see what it will take you to fill that void.
2007-08-30 11:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by Debi N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the philosophy I'm studying at the moment, they talk about only becoming aware of faith, trust, etc when they are no longer self-evident: "paradoxically, the gift only appears as gift when it begins to withdraw". Despite this, it is only through this irrational gift of faith in the world that we can live in it at all. We can't give reasons for why we do or don't see meaning, but even looking for hope demonstrates that we still have some left.
Actually, I don't think that helps much. But I'm writing an assignment on it so it just popped out;p
2007-08-24 03:58:02 · answer #6 · answered by Marie Antoinette 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not many people find the meaning. They're too busy getting on with the life they have mapped out for them to even start looking. I think once you hit a certain age it can become more relevant, and that's when you're more likely to start looking. That's why I tend to prefer older men, because it takes a few hard knocks in life sometimes before you can wake up and smell the roses.
2007-08-24 01:34:19 · answer #7 · answered by pamperpooch39 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes your search for meaning is because you are looking too high. I see meaning in a driver that lets me walk across the road even when he legally didn't have to. I see meaning when a person holds the door for me. I see meaning in my grandchildren. I see meaning in the time my wife takes to work with the kids at the library. I don't worry about the meaning of life in the broad scale. Or why am I here at all.
2007-08-24 01:40:20 · answer #8 · answered by ustoev 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lessons I learned from my dog. Life is always good when you are here, a biscuit makes everything ok, even when you yell at me I love you, nothing like a good pee, you will throw the ball as long as I bring it back, I can lay here all day long and be happy.
So I guess I look to Nick to answer my emptiness problems as dogs go he's got the world by the ***.
2007-08-24 10:32:31 · answer #9 · answered by ladyhawk8141 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have you read Ecclesiastes in the Bible? King Solomon also searched for meaning, it's a very interesting book. He concluded that life without God is meaningless and I'm afraid I'd have to agree.
2007-08-25 03:12:06 · answer #10 · answered by good tree 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning to every thing is deep inside yourself. When all else seems empty, search from your innermost, and you'll find meaning
2007-08-24 01:32:10 · answer #11 · answered by TiEL 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋