Meaning of life

I believe God is everything.

And what is then the deepest meaning of life? When

we talk about life in this world, I think the deepest meaning of this life is to really understand the emotional capacity and the emotional freedom that we are allowed to have.

We are here to experience life in an emotional and physical and material way.

And how we are going to show up materialistically, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and what we do with it is up to us.

It's our own, it's our own journey.

And so I think the meaning of life is really understand emotions, understand people, understand caring, compassion, life, love, kindness.

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Life is not a stepping stone you use to get somewhere else, or an arcade ticket you use to redeem for something better.

So long as you see it that way, you will forever torture yourself needlessly with the question, what is the meaning of life? It was never science that destroyed your faith and meaning, it was your own intellectual pride, for if you hadn't seen your scientific discoveries through such arrogant eyes, they would certainly have emboldened your faith that the weaver was indeed creating a tapestry that was, as you say, worth it, and as a result, you'd consider it a privilege to be involved.

You seem kind of annoyed at us.

Well, yeah, you are quite rude to me.

If the time of Salat comes and the person is very busy in his business or in this part of life of making things better, living a better life, then sometimes he will even leave Salat for that.

If it comes to the point of cheating his own brother in inheritance or even his own father or her own mother, people will go to that point because the whole object and purpose of life is to live comfortably and to live life, to live life.

When Nabi came to Makkah Mukarramah with his effort of leave, he changed this.

He taught Sahaba through their relation with Allah When that relation became very strong between them and Allah, their Iman, their Yaqeen, their reliance, their dependence, their hope on Allah became stronger and stronger.

At some point of the night it was as if Allah put contentment in my heart that today is your chance.

If you want Shahadah so much, you want to die for me, you want to die in the path of Allah, today I'm going to give you a chance.

That came from people whose object and purpose of life was changed.

The effort that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made in Makkah Mukallama, which we call the effort of Iman and Yateen, is to change...

There's no purpose to life.

And, uh, in fact, uh, the author of The God Delusion, d- uh, Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, um, in an interview about purpose of life, meaning of life, said, "There's no purpose, there's no meaning.

And if someone is suffering, too bad.

You've gotta, suffering, you, you suffer in life.

Your day's an eight.

Gemini, a topic you stumble across while killing time ends up consuming the rest of your evening in the best way possible.

Your day is a seven.

Hey, Cancer, your intuition about a person or a situation is confirmed today, and that validation is earned.

You know, I love this book, The Daily Stoic, and, and it, it, it gives you a day-by-day refresher course from all the great philosophers back in time.

And, uh, today, they're talking about what's the meaning of life.

You know, this is one of those topics that mean, means so many different things to different people.

So it goes on to say, uh, "What is the meaning of life? Why was I born? Most of us struggle with these questions, sometimes when we're young, sometimes not until we're older.

Well, you know, they teach me every day.

I always-- I tell people, "If you want to learn about life, spend time with your elders, because they will give you all the lessons, all the secrets for you to survive any trials that you might experience and help you become, I think, a more successful person." But, um, as you had me-mentioned, you know, I wrote a book called Life, Love and the In Between: A Geriatrician's Journey Through, um, Aging and the Meaning of Life.

Well, in that book, I talk about different themes that my elders have taught me, and I think it ended up translating into the way I approach care in aging.

And I think it relates not to just elders, but it relates to all of us.

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Somebody was thinking about things like, what does it all mean? So they asked Claude AI what the meaning of life was.

They went right to the top as far as the questions of the day go.

Here is what Claude had to say.

This is Optimal Living Daily.

The Meaning of Life is a Ham Sandwich, Part Two, by Mark Manson of markmanson.net, and I'm Justin Malik.

Happy Friday.

Welcome to the old podcast, the OLD podcast, Optimal Living Daily, where I read to you like a big ongoing audiobook, but from many different authors.

I'd recommend listening to yesterday's episode first, as this is a continuation episode.

But if you're all caught up, let's get right to part two and continue optimizing your life.

The Meaning of Life is a Ham Sandwich, Part Two, by Mark Manson of markmanson.net. Here's the kicker, and I swear I'm going to get to the ham sandwich.

Meaning is a resource that we must cultivate in our lives.