What we’re about
Meaning is enduring and boundless, transcending all ages and reappearing in every culture. Everyone has access to meaning, but few take the time to seek it out. Our wants distract us, and our worries and fears haunt us, diminishing our quest to find meaning. Then life washes over us, making shallow the deeper questions we might ask and the meaning that comes from any answers we might receive.
The works of people like Socrates, Emerson, Rumi, Blake, Anderson, as well as various Eastern and Western religious texts have preserved meaning. These works and others like them ask and answer the most profound questions that confront a man or woman at any time in life or history.
By engaging with such works in a practical, not scholarly, way, one can begin to reconnect with wonder. By pondering the sublime meanings found in them, a person can begin to counteract the blunting effects life has on the wish to know and, more importantly, on the wish to be. In this NYC in-person group we discuss many perennial works with the aim of helping each other deepen the desire to know and understand, and gain practical insights which can illuminate our individual daily lives. By using what we learn, the hope is that we can find new or lost meanings, begin to actualize our deeper wishes, and live lives that are more fulfilling than they might otherwise be.
