';What is the meaning of life?'; is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context ';What is the purpose of life?'; Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question:
Survival and temporal success
* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
Wisdom and knowledge
* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to expand one's perception of the world
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to understand creation
Ethical
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the ';Golden Rule';
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom
Religious and spiritual
* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the ';Word of God';
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods
Other
* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning (';we'; or ';us';) without having individual meaning (';I'; or ';me';)
* ...to find a purpose, a ';reason'; for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the ';meaning of life'; is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question ';What is the meaning of life?'; is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, ';What is the meaning of life?'; (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...a combination of any of the above.
No purpose, and therefore...
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in ';projection makes perception';
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?Wat is the true meaning of life?
True Living
%26gt;
%26gt; ';Truth is higher than everything, but higher still
%26gt; is true living.';
%26gt;
%26gt; The Almighty Power, the original source and
%26gt; fountainhead of all life, our home of happiness,
%26gt; peace eternal, and the means of our liberation from
%26gt; fearful bondage of births, deaths and karmas, should
%26gt; be the main objective and the only thing worth
%26gt; craving and achieving for us.
%26gt;
%26gt; We need to be in the world. We need to
%26gt; participate. We need to interact with our brothers
%26gt; and sisters. If we avoid the world, we are cutting
%26gt; ourselves off from other aspects of God, and
%26gt; furthermore we are denying God a chance to express
%26gt; ItSelf to humanity. The question remains, how do we
%26gt; interact in the world, and not be its effect, not be
%26gt; the effect of our desires, of all the distractions
%26gt; we have in this life.
%26gt;
%26gt; In whatever we do, always place some objective
%26gt; before us, ascertain the principles involved
%26gt; therein, study the methods that may lead to the
%26gt; desired goal, and finally make a periodical survey,
%26gt; a thorough check-up, to find how much nearer we have
%26gt; come to the end in view. In this connection, one
%26gt; has, of course, to devote single-minded attention
%26gt; and make an honest endeavor from day to day before
%26gt; one can note an appreciable improvement in his life
%26gt; and conduct, both toward himself and toward others
%26gt; around him.
%26gt;
%26gt; We should set spiritual goals for ourselves, and
%26gt; should maintain self-introspection diary. The
%26gt; self-introspection diary is a way of observing and
%26gt; recording the number of occurrences of the various
%26gt; passions every day, by simply focusing your
%26gt; attention on these negative aspects of the self, the
%26gt; negativity gradually evaporates.
%26gt;
%26gt; The process of self and God-realization takes
%26gt; years and years. The average length of time for
%26gt; achieving self-realization is a minimum of
%26gt; ten-to-fifteen years after receiving initiation.
%26gt; There are some rare cases when expediency demanded
%26gt; that a relatively new student fill the Master's
%26gt; shoes. It takes about as long to mature spiritually
%26gt; as it does to do so as a human being. As we pay
%26gt; attention we learn from what's going on and we just
%26gt; gradually fine tune our attention, words and
%26gt; actions. It's like tuning a guitar. We fine tune the
%26gt; process and we grow from it.
%26gt;
%26gt; One's spiritual progress is not exhibited to hide
%26gt; weaknesses, but to actually make one feel in the
%26gt; heart of hearts that one is nothing but a mere tiny
%26gt; cog in the vast machinery of Divine purposes. One
%26gt; who becomes a conscious co-worker of the Divine
%26gt; Plan, never asserts but humbly describes in third
%26gt; person. He never despises anyone but always relishes
%26gt; offering loving help and assistance to others. He
%26gt; does not criticize, but narrates the facts of life
%26gt; in a selfless manner for our spiritual benefit. He
%26gt; lives sincerely up to the Holy Commandments,
%26gt; irrespective of the results. He does not yield to
%26gt; the environments, but adjusts himself cheerfully,
%26gt; knowing it fully well that he is always under the
%26gt; Gracious Protection of the Master-Power. He is never
%26gt; gloomy and in his heart of hearts is always
%26gt; cheerful, even in the face of misfortunes. He does
%26gt; not blame others for their shortcomings but seeks to
%26gt; weed them out by careful living and adaptation. He
%26gt; does not attribute his spiritual
%26gt; progress to his own single-handed earnest
%26gt; endeavors, but considers it as a Holy Gift from the
%26gt; Master. He is well-balanced in failure and success.
%26gt; He can forgive and forget easily. He is seldom
%26gt; provocative, and is rather blessed with a keen sense
%26gt; of loving co-operation for the spiritual welfare of
%26gt; others.
%26gt;Wat is the true meaning of life?
Dear friend, what you experience from birth to death
To improve! It seems to occur at a constancy that there is no way around it. We seek to better ourselves personally, helped by circumstances in which we grow and learn. Our species evolves to be better suited against that what made life hard in the past and it seems to give an edge (shield) to whatever it is that is coming.
No matter how you look at life, the course is always set on betterment. There are of course destructive forces and people along that road, but in the bigger scheme of things these 'obstacles' only make life stronger by which in time it faster overcomes whatever troubles it.
Improvement on every level! Physical, mental, spritual, you name it.
trust me Rachel..
i just saw how many odd people have answered this question..
but dear,
u wont understand life by reading the answers on the site called YAHOO ANSWERS..
i mean how can one understand life like this..
to understand life u need to live life and so i would suggest u to log out of yahoo answers, leave Ur comp/laptop and live life to know its real meaning..
here on yahoo answer everybody will tell you his or her view of life.. u dont have to follow them..
create ur own view about life..
dont waste time..
there was a line i read..
though its related to peace but may be ull get something good from yahoo answer..
';THERE IS NO WAY TO PEACE.. PEACE IS THE WAY..';
similarly i wud say there is no other way to understand life than to actually live ur life..
take care..
start living..
bye
life is just for living
life gets meaning when you give a meaning to life by living it to the fullest and make it a purposeful one
Life in itself is a very complex matrix. And you have asked the true meaning of it.
When a person is experiencing / involved in a project, he/she tries to find the best solution according to the situation analysis.
And one can take liberty to experiment by redoing the things in a different manner.
But, in real life, these retakes or experimentations can cost dearly. Hence, the dillema and the complexity of the life comes to the surface. Decision / Judgement made once will always remain permanent.
Zindagi ka safar hai yeh kaisa safar,
Koi samjha nahi koi jana nahi................
a test . its just as our school examination . tuff but some times easy. if let go its like spilt milk ones fall down can never be taken back. as we cheat in the exam and have a support of our friends to show ans. in life we can depen upon oppor tunities..
Knock Knock
whos there????????
opportunity
can't be
why??????
b'coz it knocks only ones'
living it.
Nobody has been able to answer this question and I guess nobody ever can..................
Love %26amp; Love Only
To conquer the World, Universe, Galaxy and endeavour to the Stars!
But, not necessarily in that order!
It is really up to you decide what the true meaning of life is. That is why you are able to make choices (Free will). Your choices will determine your meaning of life.
you got to face it otherwise it will persist
In my point of view its just helping the people who really are in need of any help and being happy and making others happy. As we are not going to take anything when we die. Hence why cheat others and conquer others properties or material wealth. Ofcourse we need to have some for living but earn in the right way and make use of it. Life is a mixture of all good %26amp; bad things which we come across. Hence face it and be simple with good acts. Atleast you will get that mental peace that you have extended someones life by doing some good deeds.Life ...............................if we think deeply, it has got no meaning. Just live do your duty, with time u will get older %26amp; one day ............................your duty on earth has a fullstop.
I feel life means a lot ..but it depends person to person..as per me life is beautyful game..whose control in the Almighty hand but there are some rules if you follow them you are a good player and if you donot you are a bad player..
what i mean by this is ..enjoy your life..love evry one..donot hurt or break a heart of a person as long as possible..
every body have it own meaning...what do you concern?
42 !(I'd give ya the real answer but you're not gonna like it.)
Its all about how you play your part and strive for contenment to attain Moksha.
Seems simple-but its not!!
true life is just like an ice-cream, enjoy it before it melts.
birth was happiness,childhood happiness ,teenage happiness,young happness and get a baby is a happness most hammness and etc........ these are meaning of life
I think it was Tolstoy who said ';The only meaningful thing you can learn in life is that life is meaningless.';
There now now we can both go on to our meaningless lives :-)
To live it lively ,always trying to find the happiness however adverse the circumstances may be.
Can also refer the famous song of Hindi Film- SOUTAN--';Zindagi Pyar ka geet Hai';
Live a life that is meaningful for yourself. A life of serving others - a fruitful life. There will be pain, happiness, anger, and everything in between that a human will feel, but after you die is what will matter to everyone else.
and if you have a religion, you go to heaven, hell, nirvana, etc
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