Composing Meaning

[M]eaning doesn’t come in the genes, he said; you compose it. You compose it out of your own past … out of the experience of humankind … out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there, he said; you are the only person who can put them together into the unique pattern that will be your life. ~eulogy by Bill Moyers at John Gardner’s memorial service, 4/17/02

The stuff of meaning is all around us to compose into a life. Namaste.

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