| p103 | What is the meaning of anything—a tree, a bee, a human person—beyond definitions, beyond facts of physical existence, the physical existence and what comes of it the only knowns on which facts are based and existence assumed and verified? What is it to say what it truly means to be living? If the substance, even of heart and mind, is the same substance as creation, the same substance as the tree, unintentional and without meaning, alive in an impartial way that will cause it to grow and cause it as well to decay, what is it that makes for the meaning of living? What is meaning? To be meaningless is to have no significance. Meaning has to do with significance. Significance is suggestive and expressive. It is not concrete but it is actual. |