"What is the meaning of life?"
The meaning of life IS eternity. This fragment which we currently inhabit "called life" is just a part of eternity which is but a classroom from which we graduate to other classrooms along the path toward Oneness in God which is our eternal destiny. Some may reach It sooner than others but all will eventually.
What is the purpose of life?
To be born, learn and experience, and die -- advancing to the next level or incarnation.
Eventually, when we have incarnated enough times to learn all that we wanted to learn, then, we will gravitate back into the Oneness of God.
"Why are we here?"
We are here because "here" is where we chose and choose to be.
The meaning that life holds is to offer us the ability to have the stage wherein we can fulfill the purpose for why we choose to be here.
What? You don't remember choosing to be here or why?
Your lack of memory does not negate the fact of it, it only demonstrates that you are not yet in tune with your real self -- the "i" that has existed since the beginning of physical creation and will exist until rejoining the Oneness of "I".
Purpose and Effort
Our Purpose is to Be!
Our Effort is to Grow! -
1. To gain Knowledge, Experience
and Understanding.
2. To share That We Are!
i choose
i chose to be born, – to live or die,
Even the sex, that would be i;
i chose the race, from which to appear,
Also my wealth, my health and my fear.
i chose my trials and stumbling blocks,
And the legs i would use, in all of those walks;
i chose my sadness, my joy and my love,
i chose to serve and not be above.
i chose this life – with all of its dues,
And with each dawn, again i choose;
The experiences for me that wait ahead,
To be alive, or be claimed dead.
And of the future lives i've yet,
It is my choice that i begat;
All the things, however pleasin',
That shall befall me in those seasons.