It could be said that Meaning Tree is about striving
for authentic community.
for authentic community.
- Those who acknowledge the fact that the question of meaning is very difficult, if not seemingly impossible to answer but is nevertheless, unavoidably important and worthwhile pursuing.
- Those who simply do not know one way or the other if there is any reason to believe that meaning is anything other than an illusion but are willing to engage in a dialog concerning its potential reality & importance.
- Those who strongly believe that purposeful living can lead to meaning, but do not know how to describe or justify those intuitions and beliefs concerning their passion or pursuit.
- Those who may be leading good even successful lives, but still feel deeply unfulfilled or have a sense of yearning or feeling that something is missing.
- Those who are seeking the wisdom of a holistic or unifying concept, a belief and relationship capable of pulling together the many elements of life's struggles of life into a coherent model for living.
- Those who possess a personal faith, and sense that those beliefs are under the scrutiny & pressures of modern living that challenges many fundamental notions of a spiritual world- view and concepts like meaning.
Why Pursue Community?
“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
Bertholt Brecht
“Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
Edward bloom from the movie The Big Fish
Bertholt Brecht
“Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
Edward bloom from the movie The Big Fish
- Those who acknowledge the fact that the question and challenge of finding authentic community is nearly as important a pursuit in life as the pursuit of meaning
- Those who simply do not know one way or the other if there is any reason to believe that authentic community is anything other than an illusion but are willing to engage in a dialog concerning its potential reality & importance.
- Those who no longer trust the old traditional approaches to community and are as equally suspicious of the modern manifestations
- Those who know intuitively at the “gut level” that the experience of authentic community is a powerful factor in personal transformation and purposeful living.
- Those who strongly believe life without authentic community will potentially be lived out with a far less likelihood of realizing life’s meaning.
- Those who may be leading good even successful lives, but still feel deeply unfulfilled or have a sense of yearning or feeling that something is missing & believe that may very well be engagement with authentic community