A book that explores the sources of meaning from love and family, to work, culture and nature.
It takes us into one of the greatest questions we can face about the meaning of life. Contemplating the meaning of life may seem silly, useless, or exhausting. The truth is that asking ourselves this question is very important so that we can know the existence that is richest in meaning and walk towards it.
This book reviews a number of fields in which we can find meaning in our lives, including love, family, friendship, work, nature, and self-knowledge. We discover what makes us feel that some things have meaning while others seem meaningless, and we also learn how to add more meaning to our daily lives.
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introduction
If one openly questions the meaning of life, or thinks deeply about the meaning of life, this may seem a strange, unlucky, or funny attempt, even if unintentionally. This is not something an ordinary mortal should try, or try too hard to do. This task can be undertaken by a select few who are qualified to discover the answer through their lives; However, most of us are not worthy of this ambitious aspiration. This is because a meaningful life can only be attained by exceptional human beings, saints, artists, scientists, researchers, explorers, or leaders. If we are ever to discover meaning, what we discover will be ineluctable to our understanding… This is what we expect. It may be written in Latin, or in computer code, and what we arrive at will not be anything capable of directing our activities or illuminating the path ahead of us. We move – without always admitting it – according to a view of the meaning of life that is characterized by a significant degree of limitations.
As for the truth of the matter, this is a topic within the reach of every human being. We should all ask about the meaning of existence and define it. There is no point in surrounding this matter with any amount of prohibition.” A meaningful life can be simple, personal, useful, attractive, and even familiar. This book is a guide to that life.
A life with meaning is a life close to a happy life, but different from it in some important ways. Here are some components of that life:
A meaningful life is based on some of our highest abilities; And she puts it into practice, too. Examples of these higher abilities include gentleness, concern for others, communication, self-understanding, empathy, intelligence, and creativity. A meaningful life tends not so much to aim for everyday satisfaction as one’s fulfillment. We may live a meaningful life but experience many moments of bad mood – just as we may have many, mostly superficial, pleasures but live a life without meaning.
A meaningful life is about the long term. Projects, relationships, interests, and commitments grow cumulatively. Meaningful activities leave a mark even when the feelings that prompted them have passed.
Meaningful activities do not have to be activities that we do often. They are activities that we value highly and think, when we think about our death, that we will miss them most.
The question of what makes life meaningful must be answered personally, even if what one arrives at does not have a clear personal characteristic. We cannot depend on others to decide what will be meaningful to us. Crises of meaning, which we call “crises of meaning,” are, in general, moments in which the interpretation offered by another person, perhaps most well-intentioned, comes into clear conflict with what might be meaningful to us, as a result of our growing awareness that our tastes and interests are different.
We have to find, through a process of experience and introspection, what is meaningful to us. Pleasure may reveal itself without delay, but our taste for meaning can be more subtle and hidden. We may go a long way through life before we can come to a clear definition of what makes it meaningful.
This book looks at the wide range of options available in order to discover what makes sense for us. It is based around a discussion of eight activities with central meaning: love, family, work, friendship, culture, politics, nature, and philosophy. Most of these fields are well known, but the idea here is not so much an attempt to identify completely new sources of meaning as it is an attempt to bring up some familiar options and explain them. These choices should provide us with direction, give us the ability to find what we like best, or enable us to create alternative choices when we find ourselves straying from familiar ones.
During the course of this process, we hope to succeed in emphasizing the idea that our lives are more full of meaning than we might first think…and certainly, they are also more capable of being meaningful than we think. Increasing the amount of meaning in our lives does not need to involve any direct, radical actions. This is because, this is almost certain, our lives already have aspects that are extremely rich in meaning, but we may be unable to understand those aspects, properly realize their value, or be unable to celebrate them. It is time to transform the pursuit of a meaningful life from a complex impossibility into something we can all understand, aim for and succeed at.
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