“Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”
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Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931–1990Related quotes
“The meaning of life is life itself.”
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
La mecánica es un medio o disciplina para pealizar la vida, pero no es la vida misma. Esa debe llevarnos a la vida misma, que está en el juego de sentimentos o sea en la sensibilidad.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 53
“The 'meaning' of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself.”
From Critique of Everyday Life: Volume 1 (1947/1991)
Context: The 'meaning' of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself. It is within it, and there is nothing beyond that. 'Meaning' cannot spill over from being; it is the direction, the movement of being, and nothing more. The 'meaning' of a proletarian's life is to be found in that life itself: in its despair, or conversely in its movement towards freedom, if the proletarian participates in the life of the proletariat, and if that life involves continuous, day-to-day action (trade-union, political...).
Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (12 March 1900)
1900s
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002), Ch. 2 : I'm Not an Accident
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose. note: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Source: Creative Death", p. 5
