What it means to live a meaningful life

To live a meaningful life is not easy for most adult people of all age, as long as one does not live a meaningful life itself. As long as one has not realized what a meaningful life means, one is burdened with nearly unsolvable problems, with the danger of the shallowness and the brutality of so called social life and with “ones own”, not yet understood tricks of mind, emotion and what one calls “consciousness”. One must really be honest and upright, first, to oneself, since life loses its meaning with the absence of honesty and uprightness. To be really honest to oneself does not necessarily mean, to tell the world all the self-lies and the being untrue of ones everyday life, that one might observe everyday – this does not mean to lie to oneself, since as long as there is uprightness to oneself, there does not need to be this kind of telling-everybody-everything-thing, to which one might think to be forced in the light of honesty and uprightness. Honesty and uprightness starts with “you” – not with your behaviour and not with your words towards others –, pre-verbally, and does not need to be told to the world, which is not a hiding-away-game. To be upright and honest to oneself at first is a most highly subjective “thing”, and it is a private thing only secondary, since your honest subjectivity is prior to your private life. Your private life is your outer life it is a grown life that represents your biographical history, which is secondary. Your “own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity is prior to your private life, and this private life may not (yet!) represent your “own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity. And your “own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity is more than the good feeling and feelings that you may have in your life, more than the beautiful thoughts that you may be able to have, more than your insightfulness and usual intelligence that you may have. Ones “own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity is the “pre-condition” to “your” lived wisdom and the truly acting love that fills and touches the life and heart of people meeting you while being with you. This is what a meaningful life means, what a meaningful life feels like, what a meaningful life “gives”, it “gives” meaning to you – and – others. But, to be precise, it is not you that, “through your own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity, give meaning to yourself and others, it is life itself(!) that is life itself that “gives” meaning to all who are willing to listen to that which is already there and everywhere. And moreover: Life does not “give” meaning to you and others, through your “own”, true, honest and upright subjectivity, life is(!) meaning and life is(!) meaningful as such. Such a life is(!) really easy, and such a life is not (anymore) burdened with nearly unsolvable problems, such a life is an highly and really active(!) life, it is not a life of convenience and laziness. You must live such a life, since, as long as you are truly honest and upright to yourself, you want(!) to live such a life. You want to do it! You really want to be “like” that! So do it (now), so be it (now).