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Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Ultimately, meaning almost always implies a connection to a greater sense of community, whether real or imagined. It has a spiritual underpinning.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
I think this ending, intentionally or not, points to the way out.
Because meaning in the way that we normally use it, and certainly in the way that I’m using it, is almost preci... See more
Packy • Means and Meaning
Approaches to religion | Vividness
Meaning is the value of information, in other words, and it is what we as humans constantly create and recreate as part of our social and cultural experience.50 Rather than hovering over and above us, animating us, or exerting its own transpersonal causal (or, in Jung’s paradoxical formulation, “acausal”) force, meaning is constantly fashioned and
... See moreEric Wargo • Time Loops
a concept bringing together these ways of finding meaning.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Meaning, while often confused with information, really refers to the value of a piece of information to some agent (conscious or not) who can use it to convey a message or otherwise effect some change.