12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

itself out of nothingness into the light of sun and God. Meaning is the lotus
striving upward through the dark lake depths through the ever-clearing water,
blooming forth on the very surface, revealing within itself the Golden
Buddha, himself perfectly integrated, such that the revelation of the Divine
Will can make itself manifest in his every word and gesture.
Meaning is when everything there is comes together in an ecstatic dance of
single purpose—the glorification of a reality so that no matter how good it
has suddenly become, it can get better and better and better more and more
deeply forever into the future. Meaning happens when that dance has become
so intense that all the horrors of the past, all the terrible struggle engaged in
by all of life and all of humanity to that moment becomes a necessary and
worthwhile part of the increasingly successful attempt to build something
truly Mighty and Good.
Meaning is the ultimate balance between, on the one hand, the chaos of
transformation and possibility and on the other, the discipline of pristine
order, whose purpose is to produce out of the attendant chaos a new order
that will be even more immaculate, and capable of bringing forth a still more
balanced and productive chaos and order. Meaning is the Way, the path of
life more abundant, the place you live when you are guided by Love and
speaking Truth and when nothing you want or could possibly want takes any
precedence over precisely that.
Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.