Meaning scales

Suzanne Mercier - Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Yesterday, I talked about Hugh MacLeod's contribution to "What Matters Most" and discussed the first of his statements that had truly resonated with me:  "Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside."

Today, I'd like to raise the other statement that really grabbed me which was "Meaning scales, people don't".  Let me first state that I don't know what Hugh MacLeod meant: we all perceive ideas so differently.  What I think he was referring to and what I take out of that statement was that meaning takes us to our highest point.  It is about relative magnitude.  When I think about purpose and meaning, I think of being in service of something much bigger than me.  It might be a group of people, it might be our local community, it might be much bigger than that.  The effect on us is that we focus on our strengths and the end result we want to create or contribute to, not on our petty insecurities, failures and weaknesses.  Meaning takes us to a much higher level of ourselves.  Without meaning in our lives we are less; we drop to our lowest denominator.

What do you think?  I'd love to hear.
All the very best
Suzanne