i am seeking a peaceful & happy life......period. "Meaning" has no actual meaning, I learned that Looonnng ago.

I don't think I am seeking at all I just like my self and I like my experiences its mostly been fun - I have experienced a really good life (I am 70 now) of Course there was painful learning involved and also joyful times but none of it was preplanned it just all came to me and I responded to all the calls. I don't have a sense of choosing, only of just going for it .

The meaning of life is 42 . Do you know where your towel is ?

I don't think I have ever sought anything; though I could be fooling myself. Life just seems to happen for me whilst I am amusing myself gardening or whatever, stuff just happens i don't have any sense that it won't - something always happens - maybe I have low expectations or am too easily pleased.

This makes sense to me. I have a soft spot for the dramas in life. I embrace them as they give me a sense of meaning in my life.

Meaning IN life

yes, that is true for me. life IS the meaning, & to enhance, decorate, beautify this is my purpose.

You just reminded me that i need to open up some Joseph Campbell again.

Maybe we're not supposed to know what the meaning of life is. It's like if a cow on a farm knew the meaning of it's life was to be butchered and eaten, would it then go about it's business normally? What if we are the same way. What if in knowing the meaning of our life it would somehow alter the way we were supposed to approach our life and it's ultimate meaning. I think we should all stop trying to find a meaning to it all. Embrace the obsurdity. I say sit back, unbucle the seat belt and make sure it's a hell of a ride.

I don't look for meaning so much as I do purpose. I'm adorable things, and a lot of that does have to do with experience. I genuinely enjoy doing things that help other people feel more happy about where they're at I guess I could say that I get off on it. I just want to leave a legacy of being someone who stepped up, helped out, and left things better than I found them.

The meaning of life is that it ends.

Existence of any living creature boils down to what will you do next... and why.

It's great to be alive . I once heared someone describe life as between two eterneties . I thought that hit the nail on the head..

‘What is the meaning of a flea?’

-Joseph Campbell

Campbell was brilliant in ways that many aren’t. I think happiness and belonging are often confused with meaning and purpose. A healthy experience of life goes great lengths toward achieving real contentment.

I always did like Joseph Campbell.

I came to the conclusion that the meaning of life is up to us to decide on an individual level. It kind of runs that same line. How a person "feels alive" differs from one to another which is what leads me to believe it really is an individual ideal and decision.

I honestly believe this is so many religions fail. They try to get everyone on the same page, make everyone comply to the same life and rules. That just isn't real and leaves way too many people feeling empty and lost.

Interesting point. Existentiallism is an encompassing. In psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs covers most the self needs by his second tier. It's when we get to a higher sence of existing that we can then supercede the ego and work towards the larger ideas of community, and global issue. Beautiful quote though.

If you as an individual can make the lives 7 people in he course of your life a little happier, you've done all right.
If we a s a species can do this for one another things could get a little happier all round.
Unfortunately as a species and as individuals, humans tend toward being arseholes both by chance and intent and worse tend to see being such as a virtue to be aspired to.

Life itself is meaningless. What makes life interesting is the purpose you put into it.

so wise.

Indeed. For me, it's those fleeting moments of joy, or having a delightful chance conversation with a stranger. The random, strange and unexpected are foundations in my life.

I think facing obstacles and challenges and overcoming them is a huge part of it.

I usually quip at theists by mentioning since their god has benevolence their life has no meaning as it's already known before they were a twinkle in their parents eyes.

I go on to argue that we atheists are the correct ones as we don't attempt to sully such plans with pleas in the forms of prayer, and vain bribery in the form of tithe.

As George Carlin put it "What's the point of having a divine plan if every two-bit-schmuck with a two dollar book can come along and fuck up your plan?"

Then again, this quote puts it quite succinctly, and I may have to borrow it.

I love this!!!

Good point..,I was a fan of Joseph Campbell, studied his works but cannot remember anything clearly now! But, i learned a lot from him.