This page is part of “Creating a New Positive Religion or Spiritual Tradition”.
This is still a DRAFT.
Many religious people find meaning in their tradition. How does our tradition offer this?
Background
For background on why meaning matters, what a lack of meaning can indicate, and meaning in a finite life, see Meaning: Background.
Finding your own answer
Lumessianity does not hand out a fixed answer to the question of life’s meaning. Instead, it offers possibilities and an environment in which each person can explore such questions and determine the meaning of their own life. See Meaning: Finding Your Own Answer.
Potential answers
We group the possible answers into three kinds:
- Experiencing Life: Meaning that comes from what we feel and receive:
- Growing and expressing ourselves: Meaning that comes from who we become and what we bring out of ourselves:
- Contributing beyond ourselves: Meaning that comes from being part of something larger and making a difference:
What are not potential answers
DRAFT: Engaging in matters that do not truly benefit or advance us, and may even hold us back: petty squabbles instead of generosity and nobility; the pursuit of ever-more money as if it were an end in itself rather than merely a means to achieve more important goals; and squandering our free time on consumerism, or being a “couch potato” watching shallow TV entertainment instead of engaging in more meaningful pursuits.
See also
Questions to get you thinking about the meaning of your life