This leads to my definition of life. In many ways, it is quite simple: It is using your talents to, in some small way, make a difference in this world. Whether it's working with the environment, or our educational system, or those with physical or mental challenges, or those in the dawn or twilight of their lives, meaning is achieved by working towards and leaving behind something of value to the next generation. It matters little whether your aspiration or dream was realized: we'll never have world peace, or feed the hungry, or avoid catastrophic diseases or illnesses. What matters is that you tried, that you worked to make the world a better place. What matters is that, when you look back over your life, you can say that you fought the good fight, that you did what was right, and that you made a difference in this world. In The Meaning of Life, author Dean Gualco tackles an assortment of questions that many of us have asked at one point or other: Why are we here? What is our purpose? How does one lead a decent and honorable life? Divided into five sections, The Meaning of Life seeks to provide the answers. With discussions that include determining what you stand for, doing the best with what you have, and living life with the knowledge that it goes by in a blink, Gualco provides a thought-provoking study of an issue that has perplexed man for centuries.

Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is a God. God and the Meanings of Life is interested in exploring the truth in both these schools of thought, seeking to discover what God could and couldn't do to make life meaningful (as well as what he would and wouldn't do). Mawson espouses a version of the 'amalgam' or 'pluralism' thesis about the issue of life's meaning – in essence, that there are a number of different legitimate meanings of 'meaning' (and indeed 'life') in the question of life's meaning. According to Mawson, God, were he to exist, would help make life meaningful in some of these senses and hinder in some others. He argues that whilst there could be meaning in a Godless universe, there could be other sorts of meaning in a Godly one and that these would be deeper.

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Philosophy in a Meaningless Life provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence. Rejecting all of this, Tartaglia embraces nihilism ('we are here with nothing to do'), and uses transcendence both to provide a new solution to the problem of consciousness, and to explain away perplexities about time and universals. He concludes that with more self-awareness, philosophy can attain higher status within a culture increasingly in need of it.

Love and the Divine are the best meanings there can be, just because love stands at the top of your feelings and you treasure the most, while the Divine is everything that exists. You cannot find anything beyond love and the Divine capable enough to set your meaning in life and in this world, simply because there is nothing else beyond them. However, there is significantly more to learn and understand about the human meaning, just because, as it is presented in this world today through science, literature, philosophy, and through the rest of ideologies, it is not enough. You fail to understand the human meaning, and this causes you to fail your own meaning in life and in this world, at least your natural meaning, as you receive it from Life and from the Divine. Because the concept of meaning is presented to you empirically today, you cannot understand it accurately in this manner but only through doctrine and beliefs, you can never engage your reasoning in this manner in order to grasp accurately your own natural meaning, your natural meaning is easily hijacked, and everything is done on purpose, to harm and exploit you. In this manner, you end up fulfilling consensually implemented meanings throughout life, on behalf of the rich and the powerful of this world, since they are the ones controlling ideologies and therefore consensual meanings in this world. Not much that you do now counts for Life and for the Divine, despite of what ideologies tell and promise, and when you look back, now you may see the kind of world that you create. And do not blame the rich and the powerful of this world, since you are the one doing everything, for them. Many times, it is for your children that you struggle throughout life, to make them happy, to make them worthy, and to make everything count, because this is exactly your meaning in your family. Yet can’t it be the same in your community and in society? Does it ever make a difference to have or not to have a specifically defined meaning in life and in this world? Yes, it certainly makes a difference, because all meanings count, even the slightest ones, since they are connected. And it is always a matter of identifying your meanings instead of fulfilling them unknowingly, otherwise you end up working your entire life in vain. While through your consensually induced meanings, you end up working against the meanings of others, deliberately or not, living your life against your loved ones. While they can certainly feel, and this ruins entire relationships. This is your consensual meaning in your family, in society, in life, and in this world. And so you end up living your life against yourself, against your own natural meaning. Throughout this book, we follow, identify, define, understand, and model the human meaning, genuine and consensual, from all perspectives and in all contexts. You learn about your meaning in life, in this world, in society, within your family and genetic line, within you own cognitive system, within higher worlds, and within everything that exists.

The Meaning of Life is the transcription of a series of six talks given by Norman Grubb in the early 1970's to Camps Farthest Out, a non-denominational group of Christians seeking to find the deeper truths of God…of themselves…of life...and how to live it. CFO had numerous guest speakers and this was one of several times Norman shared his `knowings' with them. Norman's passion and joy was always to tell every seeker how a perfect God lives in His perfectly created humans. In John 17, Jesus' last prayer before He goes to the Cross, Jesus prays for all of those who will believe in Him…that we might be one even as He and the Father are one. Jesus called the promise of His Cross oneness and unity…Norman spoke of the fulfillment of His promise as our union with Christ. In these talks Norman shows us, step by step, how the Father accomplishes His purposes for each of us. The front cover of this book is a `shadow' of this very truth. It is a picture of Moses' burning bush - a common bush aflame, yet not consumed…a profound image of man aflame with the Living Christ, but remaining fully human! This IS the meaning of life…God living and moving and having His being in and as man…Christ was seen and experienced through the human Jesus two thousand years ago and since Pentecost…Christ, by His Holy Spirit, has come to live again in all who receive Him.

New Direction, Clarity & Confidence! Featuring 9 Life Leadership Strategies to Live the Life You Want, the Way You Want, How You Want. Do you feel stuck in a rut and your life is on hold? Are you looking for new direction but don’t know which way to turn? We all want to do more than just survive; we want to thrive. But if you’re trapped in the same old routine, now is the time to start living the life you were born to live—with abundance. Your life situation today is the result of the choices you have made in the past. So to experience something different, you need to make different choices. This book is your go-to manual if: • You need a break from the old and to take a new direction. • You desire greater success and fulfillment. • You seek the confidence to be yourself and not what others expect you to be. “Don’t let life pass by you—let life pass through you!”

The book is entitled Tragedy In The Making. Its written after he the (author) experienced suffering, pain, struggle, and poverty for a very long time in his life because of wrong beliefs he subscribed to, wrong decisions and choices he have made. The truth is that people are overwhelmed by what they are going through in their daily living. People are trying so hard to make life work, and no matter how hard they try, they keep on failing. Because they are living their lives outside the parameters of Gods will for their lives. Tragedy in the Making is trying to live the life we have designed for ourselves versus failing to live the life that God has designed for us. When you keep doing things in your own way, instead of Gods way, you wont be able to manage your lifethat is a promise. The source of the suffering in this book is the result of mankind not comprehending the purpose and the plan of God for creating them. When I observe and look around in the world today, I see a lot of ongoing suffering, pain, struggle, and poverty in Gods people as well. I believe you can agree with me when I say, Some of the things we see daily in this world are heartbreaking. Most leaders are responsible for the suffering and struggle that we see in peoples lives. Whether be the heads of states, heads of institutions, or heads of families. Somehow, we are where we are today because someone has led us there. The solution in your suffering, sorrow, pain, and struggle can only be found in one man only, and his name is Jesus Christ. He came to reconcile us with the Father. He came to restore us into our original state and mend a broken relationship between us and God our creator.

Sarah was born in 1911, behind the pale of settlement near the city of Kiev, Ukraine, to religious Jewish parents. She was the ninth child and youngest daughter. Before immigrating to America with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandson in 1979, Sarah spent sixty-eight years building a life of remarkable friendships, personal and professional achievements as well as unconditional love and devotion to her family. This story takes you on Sarah's journey, starting with memories of her father being savagely beaten during Russia's pogroms against Jews, her stuggles through post-Revolutionary Russia's rapid social and political changes and the hardships and hearbreaking experiences during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. At sixty-eight years old Sarah left her home, her extended family, her friends and her country so that her daughter and her daughter's family could have a better life. Sarah spent the next fifteen years building a new life in America while always cherishing the memories of people, places and events of her past.

This book represents a very exciting part of my personal journey and has been written to better understand our existence on this blue planet. This book has also been written with the desire to share my personal ideas with others and to start a dialogue in the hope of improving our everyday lives. The three sections of the book all have the same goal which is to define as well as eventually find happiness. The first part of the book explains how to organize your life with the prioritizing process and describes the human needs, wants, and hopes. The second part explains how to maximize flexibility and minimize stress to find happiness, and the third part explains our existence on earth and the rationale behind the meaning of life. This book obviously represents my personal understanding of life and will hopefully help some individuals who are looking for a refreshing way to look at our brief passage on earth.