The Meaning of Life

I have always believed the meaning of life is a recursive definition.

The meaning of life is to discover the meaning of life.

I do not say this sarcastically but rather to point out that it is perhaps the case that we all come from and return to the same place, the same ONE, if you will, since energy is never destroyed but rather it is redistributed.

Yet it seems while we are one with the whole we are also individual in ways that transcend our physical being. Perhaps we are alive to learn to break through the screen of the senses, to experience while in a body the transcendent self we truly are.

To me, this has always seemed more likely than the belief that we are just the result of a series of random mutations. If not a series of random mutations, then are we evolving towards god (perfection) or devolving away from god (chaos), but in either case does it even have to be this way at all? Maybe its simply we are, as we always have been, and always will be.

It is entirely possible that the energy we use to produce thought is not required to be bound to the physical entity it inhabits. The fact that it is, is more a benefit than a burden (though many don't see life this way).

And so if we look at life in this way we can begin to see what is really important. It is not the material wealth we accumulate, the knowledge we acquire, the good deeds we think we have done. It is the net positive effect you have had on the whole. The validation that this was energy well spent so maybe in the future you may get a chance to pick your parents again.

But how do we accomplish this? How do we improve the whole from which we are borne? I have no fucking idea, but its a good question.