There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself. — Erich Fromm
Perhaps we spend too much time looking for the meaning of life, as if it were a formula that would grant us wisdom and power and happiness. Maybe there isn’t a simple meaning to life, or just one meaning for everyone. In our addiction, we felt there must be an answer, a single answer to all our problems. A magic formula, perhaps, that would cure us instantly and set us free. How we wanted someone to come and give us that formula! But if there were a single answer, then life would be the same for everyone. And how boring that would be. What we learn in recovery is that life takes on meaning for each one of us only through our own actions and process of living — and that’s what makes our lives unique and adventurous.
I’m glad to be engaged in a lifetime search for meaning.
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