Joy (pt. 1)

The meaning of your life is joy.

This is assuming that the question of the meaning of life is mostly concerned with what you should direct yourself towards. Joy is a whole answer.

If you do not know what happened before the universe, or what happens after you die, or etc, does this leave you in the dark? No. To know your life’s meaning does not require an explanation of the nature of the whole universe, or of any part of the universe fully explained. This is because the explanation, to be yours, must be of you; it must come in your language, and not in either a language of billions of years of time and of light or in a language of divine power or knowledge, unknowable to the mortal mind.

This is not closed mindedness. It is one’s own mindedness. And the larger scale, whether you see it in terms of physics or of faith, simply is not a person’s to encompass, at least not during their lifetime.

Your study or your search may lead as far as they may lead, and the point is not to limit yourself, but simply to be yourself: to admit that what your life means has everything to do with what you effect, what effects you, and with what you do know. To admit what joy is to you, and to seek to be a part of giving joy and receiving joy. That is what you are here for.