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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
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... See more
Packy • Means and Meaning
Approaches to religion | Vividness
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
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
“Sometimes life feels a certain way that we call “absurd”: nothing matters, all efforts are for naught, everything seems random and perverse, positive intention is perpetually thwarted. This stance communicates darkness and edginess, which can feel like wisdom. But we don’t live as if life is absurd; we live as if it has meaning and makes sense. We
... See morea concept bringing together these ways of finding meaning.