The mind can only approach the meaning of something through thoughts about it.
You cannot separate yourself from life without suffering for that separation. We are punished by a nature that is never satisfied with where it is.
When you really know the meaning of something, you don't have to look for it.
Life is trying to show you the meaninglessness of your present life. The problem is that we are trying to attach meaning to -- and derive a sense of self from -- things that are lifeless.
Being asleep is the same as believing that every thought knows the meaning of every event.
The real meaning of any event is greater than the sum of its parts, while thought can see only the part.
When you react to a moment, it is the reaction of a nature that is measuring whether or not the event matches its view of reality. The reaction then creates the very condition that it doesn't want.
The ghost of the past tells us what should happen in the future and rejects anything in the present that doesn't match.
Without know it, we are looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places because of a nature that defines what the meaning is.
What you want to blame outside of yourself does not exist apart from the "you" that is defining what the source of the problem is.
The mind's meaning comes about through separation, while real meaning is born of unity. Our present meaning is a derivative of being apart from life.
Real meaning is not something that thought adds to life after the moment has taken place. We don't have to create meaning.
Real meaning exists through the marriage of the Will of Heaven as it meets the will of the earth. "Not my will, but thine, be done." Real meaning is a living relationship.
A mind that is always trying to force life to match its meaning will never know contentment.
The individual who is continually renewed is the one who stands in the interior place where the Will of Heaven meets the will of earth, aware of the relationship.