Shakti Gawain Quotes

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

The meaning of life is life.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.