Bedeutung

• Understanding is the comprehension of meaning. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Satsang, 8. November 2008

• It is not the events of life but how we hold them in mind that creates our reaction. Events in and of themselves have no power to affect how we feel, one way or another. What does affect us is our position and judgment about them, and how we decide to be with them. Our attitude, our point of view, the context, and the overall meaning give the event the emotional power over us. We can see that we are the creator of the meaning and impact it has on us. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, chapter 4 "Health", S. 129

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

• There's a huge amount of evidence that above a certain relatively modest level, more money doesn't create all that much more satisfaction and happiness in one's life, and that what ultimately confers satisfaction and happiness are non-monetary things:
• satisfying work,
• close relationships,
• living a life of meaning.
  I think that as more people are liberated from the struggle for survival, you're going to have more people who have the luxury of seeking meaning, seeking a sense of purpose, a sense of transcendence.
  Look at the work of the Nobel-prize economist Robert William Fogel, talking about "the fourth great awakening." He talks about how the quest for self-realization has expanded from a tight fraction of the planet to much more of it, especially in the developed world. Others call it "meaning-want" — parts of the planet have gone from "material-want" to "meaning-want."
  Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan calls it a move from materialist values to post-materialist values. I think there's a certain luxury that comes from being materially well off that liberates people to seek something more. Daniel Pink, The Changing Workplace, Interview,  eJournal USA, February 2006

• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Viktor E. Frankl

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. Viktor E. Frankl

• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl

1. Life has meaning under all circumstances.
2. Everyone has a will toward meaning.
3. Human beings have freedom of choice, over attitudes, even if over nothing else.
   Viktor E. Frankl, Logotherapy in Action, pg. 33, edited by Joseph Fabry, et. al.

Humor

• Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin (1937-2008) controversial US American comedian

• All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nieztsche, German philosopher