How do people do this?
Individual level?
Family level?
Community level?
Cultural/religious level?
Historical level?
Evolutionary level?
I experience a paradox when trying to answer these and similar questions. The more I search and try, the less I find. If someone is firmly anchored in a certain reality, be it a religious, a political or a scientific reality, then he also finds in it a significant part of those things that are considered particularly valuable. Basically these are not dogmas, commandments or instructions for behaviour, but experiences in experienced situations. But the more I seek, the greater the dubiety. If one does not reflect in order to find the meaning of life, but allows oneself to be surprised by one's fellow world, by every single day that always brings something new in addition to what one knows, a completely different approach to the question of the meaning of life is created. I would rather shy away from producing certainties that come from advisers, dogmas or self-imposed commandments - the question suggests this. Perhaps other people will find support in it. I don't want to take that hold away from them. But that would not be my approach to this question.
Ha! In my personal experience I found people often lacking a deeper sense of meaning on a personal level. Most will, at a point, pursue the traditional path, get a nice job, have a family, and work from there until they die. Some maybe will find a middle-way and enjoy their own pursuits. Personal enlightenment and desires are put aside when attending and caring for someone other than yourself.Yet I think that any individual should develop a healthy relationship with himself first, then others, in order to cast away doubt from their path. It really depends on who/how you are and how you adjust yourself to the world. Ultimately, if you're an optimistic nihilist( like I consider myself to be), there's the realization that nothing truly matters, but you should do it regardless since this one beautiful life is the only shot we have at experiencing it.
I experience a paradox when trying to answer these and similar questions. The more I search and try, the less I find. If someone is firmly anchored in a certain reality, be it a religious, a political or a scientific reality, then he also finds in it a significant part of those things that are considered particularly valuable. Basically these are not dogmas, commandments or instructions for behaviour, but experiences in experienced situations. But the more I seek, the greater the dubiety. If one does not reflect in order to find the meaning of life, but allows oneself to be surprised by one's fellow world, by every single day that always brings something new in addition to what one knows, a completely different approach to the question of the meaning of life is created. I would rather shy away from producing certainties that come from advisers, dogmas or self-imposed commandments - the question suggests this. Perhaps other people will find support in it. I don't want to take that hold away from them. But that would not be my approach to this question.
Meditation, indeed is a path which many people use, in the Western world for some special people with high ranking in the public, social media etc. also a way they talk of it in interviews, but meditaiton is useful for everyman, I suppose.
I found it only in God. In the pages of His words for deeper meanings about life and destiny.
Find out why you are in life. When you feel that your life is very lofty and that you are exploiting your time and your abilities gives your life meaning.
I know that the time I spend with RG tasks, how to answer this question, is lost time, in a sense meaningless, but because I have to upload a certain project and secure evidence, so I'm busy with RG, certainly one benefits from other experiences and one's own experiences may benefit others, but it is bullshit - there are really more valuable ones, the well-meant hint to fellow human beings "make your liver more valuable" tends to be counterproductive for the problem because it doesn't capture the complexity of relationships. The advice should be given above all to oneself, because for others it is rather a matter of course, even if this matter of course is not observed by many people, for different reasons.
I try to see deeper meaning of life through everything that encompasses me.I believe life is a journey to the realization that we are all interconnected to each other through mother nature and its laws.
For me is helping poor people. Their reaction makes me sometimes cry.
This question is directed to explore the individual or personal choices to achieve the meaning in life.There is no standardized way of reaching at a decision to formulate a philosophy of life at any level.Most of us have a very vague sense of our capacities and orientations and this has been proved in many studies that how poor we are at estimating our own personal traits.Meaning in life is gradually realized and that maybe be dependent upon with varying degree of needs that have been met.This is according to the maslow theory of needs.It is not possible for a person to look for deeper meaning in life if his or her basic needs are not fulfilled. our basic survival needs, our needs for security , love and social recognition , self esteem needs are all important motivators in our life.If someones basic survival needs are not met then he will not proceed to the next level of needs.He will make sense of life and attached meaning to it from his existing reality.Social injustice,God's will and personal inadequacies are some of the inputs that enter our consciousness for processing and the way we process this information depends upon our temperament and other social ,emotional ,intellectual and psychological parameters.
While it may be like a matrix, still I believe I am still living in the superficial world of my lack of insight about life
Regards
Deeper meanings about life is found in the word of God- the bible.
The deeper meaning can only be found out when the meaningful has already happened.
Meditation in the universe and creating God leads us to know the deepest meaning of our existence.
I usually go to some remote place which is nearly detached to modern day, it especially include empty beaches, high cliffs and mountains. There I sit and feel the air flowing through my lungs. This accelerates my thinking process. And help me to understand deeper
Looking for the hidden forces behind the material and visible actions.
In my view this question is very important because our attitudes change with advancing age. One reflects one's own life experiences in retrospect on one's own life. For example the question: Were all your decisions right? Do you regret certain decisions that turned out to be problematic? And similar questions.
when you are open hearted and honest with yourself , not lying yourselfe , and with an innately pure thinking while searching inside yourselfe , be sure that you will find the deepest meaning of your life
Self awareness determines the correct direction and true meaning of life.Without knowing the essence of your real personality, it is not possible to chose a path that leads to success and happiness.
To reconnect with what is important is what makes me seek the meaning of life! Sometimes I realize that I deviate from the path and then I go back searching for the essence of being.
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