Michael Lister - Meaning Every Moment

I believe every moment of our lives can be meaningful.

Meaning is defined as what is intended to be, the import, purpose, or significance of something.

If we live our lives in a certain careful, mindful, open, grateful way, we can experience the intended import, purpose, and significance of them. We can have meaningnot just on occasion, but in every moment.

Is there a purpose to our lives, a plan, a design? Why are we here? What does it all mean? Is there true significance to existence or is it merely the result of random chaos momentarily materializing into something resembling order?

The exploration of these ideas, the asking of the questions, is far more important than the conclusions we reachthe longing for meaning is itself meaningful, gives our lives meaning.

If we seek, we shall find. If we thirst, we will be quenched. If we ask, we shall receive.

Its all in the approachmindfulness, openness, meditation, contemplation, abandon, deliberate study, intentional experience.

Meaning is everywhere, in everything, awaiting discovery. Its easily missed when mindfulness is lost, when we cease to be present, awake, alive; when we allow ourselves to slip into unconsciousness, slumber, distraction; when we fail to perceive; when we forget what truly matters most; when we, no matter how momentarily, lose our way.

Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of Mans Search for Meaning, observed, Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Mans Search for Meaning chronicles Frankls experiences as a Nazi concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. Frankl went on to say, 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 persons life at a given moment. And that momentevery momentis what this book is about. Finding, having, sustaining, experiencing meaningall our moments, whether mundane or momentous.

Meaning every moment is possible.

Open yourself up to now.

Awake. Arise. Come alive.

Be present. Be mindful. Breathe. Be.

Dont miss the gift being given to you. The gift of life, of now, of the moment and all the potential it containsall the potential contained in every moment, and the meaning awaiting you inside.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau