What Is the Meaning of Life?
What does it mean to truly live with purpose and fulfillment? Many people, while chasing achievements or personal goals, eventually wonder why their lives feel unfulfilled, and why their relationships or ambitions ultimately feel empty. As the writer of Ecclesiastes observed, many pursuits reveal their hollowness only after years have been devoted to them (Ecclesiastes 1–2). In today's culture, it's easy to lose sight of life’s meaning. People often seek it in career success, wealth, relationships, pleasure, and philanthropy. But countless individuals who have “achieved it all” testify to an inner emptiness. Even though they’ve reached their goals, the void remains. The author of Ecclesiastes, traditionally thought to be King Solomon, also pursued every avenue for meaning—wealth, wisdom, pleasure, and power—only to find them all “meaningless, utterly meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). He described life “under the sun,” focused solely on what we can see and experience, as devoid
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