Quotes about Meaning

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. God tells Job, who wants an explanation for all his troubles, "You wouldn't understand.

Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.

What finally helped was an image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawrence, who saw all of us as trees in winter, with little to give, stripped of leaves and color and growth, whom God loves unconditionally anyway. My priest friend Margaret, who works with the aged and who shared this image with me, wanted me to see that even though these old people are no longer useful in any traditional meaning of the word, they are there to be loved unconditionally, like trees in the winter. When

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein.

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

To search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

Bullet points are not the point.