1,900 Quotes About Meaning

The difference between a modern artist and a Buddhist monk is in the approach. The artist goes into the void empt and returns with a souvenir, if you will. The monk approaches the void with a traditional body of knowledge and arrives at emptiness. Our world, no less than that of the monks, is full of junk that gets in the way of spiritual practice. The artist plays with the junk, the monk orders it into nothingness.

Sometimes the meaning beyond the talisman is greater than the talisman itself. A star has a hint of galaxies.

Who am I? Some answers have their own infinity. With no end. And no beginning.

And sometimes, meaning makes it meaningless

The ideas you have in mind tell the most of who you are.Some ideas are existential luxury.

Some symbols reach to your primordial archives.

Liberation has fragmented revelation,and fragmented illumination.

What's all this about? How does it work? What should I do? What am I for?

Our narrating self would much prefer to continue suffering in the future, just so it won't have to admit that our past suffering was devoid of all meaning. Eventually, if we want to come clean about past mistakes, our narrating self must invent some twist in the plot that will infuse these mistakes with meaning.