Life has NO Meaning!

Michael Mints
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
2 min readOct 4, 2021

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“Life is without meaning. YOU bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life Is whatever YOU decide for it to be. Being fully alive is the meaning.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Why am I here?” or “What is my purpose?” Are these questions you’ve asked before? This Joseph Campbell quote provides an excellent answer to those questions.

Campbell starts out his quote by stating that the concept of life, in and of itself, lacks a meaning. On its own, life is empty. It is nothing. Then, he goes on to say that each individual, contributes the meaning to their own life. YOU give the meaning to YOUR life!

Campbell believed that each of us determines our own meaning by how we live our lives. The very fact that you’re alive gives your life meaning, according to Campbell.

Stop struggling to figure out why you’re here.

let go of the incessant questioning. Accept that you deserve a full rich life. Regardless of what’s happened in your past or the mistakes you’ve made, you deserve to be here, simply because you are here.

In our humanistic culture, people lose sight of the meaning of life. They pursue many things, thinking that in them they will find meaning and purpose. Some of those pursuits include business success, wealth, good relationships, sex…

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