Your Path
Man has a yearning for meaning: Why am I here? What is my purpose? Is there more than just this one life? Religion and spiritual searching are manifestations of this yearning. The blessing and curse of the rational mind is that we are intelligent enough to frame the question but perhaps not intelligent enough to find the answer. Tolstoy took a fairly despairing view on it all: “The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is pointless.” The meaning and the purpose of your life is the meaning and purpose that you choose to give it, even if you ascribe the choice to some outside/divine force. At…