Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. —Niels Bohr

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Rather than to ask what is the meaning of this universe, we would have to say that the universe is its meaning. As this changes, the universe changes along with all that is in it. What I mean by ‘the universe’ is ‘the whole of reality’ and what is beyond. And of course, we are referring not just to the meaning of the universe for us, but its meaning ‘for itself’, or the meaning of the whole for itself.

Similarly there is no point in asking the meaning of life, as life too is its meaning, which is self-referential and capable of changing, basically, when this meaning changes through a creative perception of a new and more encompassing meaning. 

You could also ask another question: What is the meaning of creativity itself? As with all other fundamental questions we cannot give a final answer, but we have to constantly see afresh. For the present we can say that creativity is not only the fresh perception of new meanings, and the ultimate unfoldment of this perception within the manifest and the somatic, but I would say that it is ultimately the action of the infinite in the sphere of the finite — that is, this meaning goes to infinite depths.


—David Bohm
Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

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Everything you do reverberates throughout a thousand destinies. 

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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We are the creators and creatures of each other,

causing and bearing each other’s burden.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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