Plus - The Magazine of Positive Thinking, What is the Meaning of Life by Robert Fulghum

In April 1990, Plus - The Magazine of Positive Thinking featured a work by Robert Fulghum titled, What is the Meaning of life.

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This reflective essay begins with the author humorously noting how asking “What is the meaning of life?” usually ends a meeting with chuckles and people heading for the exits. However, during one seminar in Crete, he asked this question and received a profound response from Alexander Papaderos, founder of an institute for peace and understanding located near the historic WWII battleground of Maleme, Crete.

Papaderos shared a powerful metaphor: as a child, he had found a broken mirror from a German motorcycle. He polished the shard and used it to reflect light into dark places—symbolizing his life’s mission to reflect light (knowledge, kindness, understanding) into the dark corners of the world. This story serves as a poetic and moving answer to the question of life’s meaning—it’s not about having all the answers, but about bringing light wherever possible.

The original article can be found below.

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