This may be hard to follow, it is meant to be
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When Erin sayes life has the meaning you ascribe to it - it is true, but try to turn it on it's head and see what happens: If you try to find meaning, you will ascribe meaning to what you see, hear, sense and think. By ascribing meaning to this don't you actually prevent the meaning being shown to you?
All religions have in them parables that can be interpreted as: the truth can only be found by searching inside of you. It is the mind that complicates this search by it's interpretations and ascribing meaning. And the dogma of religion comes about when the mind tries to make sense of the parables and interprets them in fixed ways.
This presents the paradox that if you consider all your thoughts and sensory experience to be meaningless, and continously discard them as meaningless, the mind will run out of things to do and eventually shut up, and then you can experience something entirely different that may give you an inner knowing of the meaning you search for. Other paradoxes: You can only understand by surrendering your mind's need to understand. You will only find truth by stopping your search for it.
Chew on that and see what happens...