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Will's
Sojourn to find the meaning of life Journey along with Will. Discover what events in his life have brought him to this quest.. |
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Will's writing, stories, and essays on the Meaning of life | |
The
Letter writing campaign I have embarked on a letter writing campaign to many people of the world asking them what they think the meaning of life is. Read the letter, and read the list of people I have sent it to. See their responses, if I get any. As of August 2, 2005 there have been no responses. |
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The
Question in a bottle I will be sending out notes in a bottle. You can keep track of how that is going here. Have I received any replies? |
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People What do people say the meaning of life is? Learn more here |
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Books
What famous, and not so famous books are there about the meaning of life? |
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Movies The meaning of life has been covered in movies. Learn more about them. |
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What
Comes Next Inquiries into what happens to us after we die. |
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More the meaning of life has been explored in many different ways by many different people from music to poetry. Learn more about it here. |
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Quotes
Read quotes about the meaning of life |
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The
Blog Here you can get Will's daily thoughts on his quest. |
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The
Bulletin Board Join the Google group. Here you can read what other people have to say about the meaning of life. You can also post your own thoughts. |
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The
Golden Rule: There is one very important rule that must be followed in this quest. Find out what it is. |
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My Personal website where I have a lot of searching essays about my life and the meaning of it: 2007 - 2008 - 2009 | |
Quotes about the Meaning of Life | |
"Only when we are able to attribute a real meaning to the world and to life shall we be able also to give ourselves to such action as will produce results of real value. As long as we look on our existence in the world as meaningless, there is no point whatever in desiring to effect anything in the world." Albert Schweitzer in The Philosophy of Civilization We Have a common sky. A common firmament encompasses us. What matters it by what kind of learned theory each man looketh for the truth? There is no one way that will take us to so mighty a secret. -Symmachus A.D. 384 "I think, therefore I am." -- Descartes "To be or not to be? That is the question." -- William Shakespeare (Hamlet) "The question isn't finding out if the idea is crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true." -- Bohr "People
say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that
what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our
life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within
our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture
of being alive." "It is
the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he
is to do in this universe." "Although
a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can
hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him." "Walk in
the ways of thine heart." "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -- Whitman "The mind is everything. What you think you become." -- Buddha Gotama "The human being is a synthesis of infinite and finite, etern and transitory, freedom and necessity." -- Kierkegaard "The ultimate
aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with
Truth." "Hide not
your talents, they for use were made." "We spend
all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is
left when we drop all concepts." "Everything
in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you
live it best by holding it with very open hands." "Begin
at once to live, and count each day as a separate life." "This above
all: to thine own self be true, "For every complex problem there is a clear, simple and wrong answer." -- Henry Louis Mencken "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -- Helen Keller "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -- Albert Einstein "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." -- William Osler "There's no such thing as chaos, only certain patterns of order we fail to understand." -- Kierkegaard "I learned
at least this by my experiments. That if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he
has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"Pursue
some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love
and reverence." "Everything
can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose "What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." --Viktor Frankl "We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering." -- Viktor Frankl "The only true mystery is the one we see. But it's the only one which is never talked about." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories) "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." -- Willian Shakespeare (Macbeth) "The purpose
of life is a life of purpose." "What is the use of running if we are not on the right way?" "Was hilft laufen wenn man nicht auf den rechten Weg ist?" --German Proverb "...happiness if affected more by one's movement toward (or away from) success than by one's position near (or far from) it. Thus a famous king and conqueror, who has always had everything he wanted, but whose fortunes are slipping slightly, is less happy than a blind beggar, who never had anything he wanted, but has just found himself a tasty crust of bread. So the law of happiness says happiness waxes and wanes in direct proportion to a sense of progress toward or away from a goal, a worthy cause, a creation, a companion to be loved..." -Guy Murchie
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