The meaning of language is one thing, the meaning of life another.
The one static and syntactical; the other creative and experiential.
Life is made meaningful when we are inspired by truth, beauty and virtue, words that are otherwise meaningless in that they do not correspond to any objects in the world. When we treat these ideas as if they were such objects, the world becomes other than what it is and we other than what we are.
If there is beauty or justice or virtue in the world, it is because we have put them there.
Thus we participate in the creative happening of Being.
If I were a rock, I would roll downhill; if I were a wolf, I would hunt -- since I am a man, I create meaning where none is to be found.
Reality consists of all that is and all that is not.
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