What is the meaning and purpose of life? Well, there isn't really a singular meaning and purpose to life.  There are as many meanings and purposes as there are people, and the meaning and purpose of your life will change as you shift. The trick is to be aware of all you can be.

 

Try and be as conscious as possible -- not just of the things in your immediate surroundings or your physical environment, or the people that you know, or the magazines that you might read, or the books that you might study, these are things to be conscious of -- but try more and more to peel back that layer between yourself and the transcendental reality. Try and look more deeply into things. As you are sitting reading or you are walking through the woods or whatever you may be doing, have the sense that you are not only walking through the woods on this earth, but that you are walking through the woods of eternity. 

When you talk to someone, don't simply feel that you are talking to another individualized being, but try and have the sense that you are talking to a being that is infinitely old, that's always been, that knows all things; not simply the person in front of you, but there is another being there too. 

Feel that when you walk through the world, you are walking through thousands and millions of worlds. This physical world we see in front of us and around us is only a tiny suggestion of what is.  The miracle of life and perception is endless. We ourselves are that miracle.  Our very existence, our ability to live as conscious beings, as perceivers of attention, suggests life. The most amazing thing there is, is life.

 

- "Transcendentalism", On the Road with Rama