Night School Notes: 1/15/2026 - The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

This reflection arose in the quiet space between dreaming and waking—what I’ve come to call Night School Source Notes:

People often want to know what it is that they are alive for. This reveals an innate yearning, an innate desire for meaning. Victor Frankel’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning” told this tale quite beautifully, illustrating how finding meaning in life can mean the difference between literally life and death. So, this meaning in life is something. It really is something, and something that people often ask in coaching sessions.

I am reminded of the last time somebody asked me that. Of course, I don’t tell people what to think, and sometimes it is helpful for me to tune into Source and ask of the infinite expansive One on behalf of others such as I do in these early morning Source notes sessions. And so, when I asked this question, the reply was short and sweet. The answer to the question: What are we here to do with our lives? was simply… We are here to exist, and to know ourselves through experience. That was it. Simply to exist.

Apparently this is true of all of Creation. It exists as an expression of the Divine, who from one point of view seeks to know itself, or experience itself through object-subjectivity, because the eye cannot see itself. It requires something apparently out there. It is so perfect, so seemingly real, and at the same time it also isn’t. And as I have said before, the experience of it is as real as anything and we can find meaning in it. So what a relief to know that we are not here to save the world. We are not even here to be the best version of ourselves. From one point of view that doesn’t make any sense. How can the infinite be anything better than that which it already is, or more than that which it already is?

The idea of better and worse doesn’t make any sense in the absolute and yet, in this world of form and paradox it appears to be so, and there are things which, and experiences which we prefer to experience. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with setting intentions, goals and aspirations of even grandeur, and service, and comfort, peace, joy, and loving harmony. All these are wonderful, and it makes sense that we pursue things which we prefer, and it doesn’t happen automatically. One needs to utilize their capacity for concentration, imagination, repetition, volition, and patterned thought and will, and follow through in order to make things seemingly real and to appear and come into being and change and grow and flourish.

So yes, take out your pen and write it down, that which you really, really prefer to experience in life, and those things which are really, really most important to you. When I say you, we are talking about your personality, and your temporary experience in human form in a way, and at the same time also that which there are no words for, simply, truly ineffable. So, I leave this entry tonight with this truth which in a way, as it reads and reveals, one can see that not only is this true for the personality, the individuated expression in form, that which to do with one’s life, it also reveals perhaps the will of God and its intention and meaning in Creation, literally as Creation, all of it perhaps. In fact, I would say more than that... The all of the all created it all, sustains it all, and loves it’s all as existence in order to know itself, and this is true of the infinite forms including everyone and everything.