As far as meaning goes here on earth, we only have what we have, nothing more, which I don’t like because there's nothing more I can 'get' (i.e. 'get' as in 'to understand' but more fearfully 'to possess'), and nothing less, which implies a simple responsibility to sincerely try understanding what I may about my limited humanity.
Because every one lives here in limitation, between our human biology and our numinous experience, between our bodies and our minds we live between past and future, in the space between our experience and the symbols of our experience. We are neither the experience nor the symbol(s) of our experience, and no matter how much meaning I may obtain by it, I am neither my numinous relationship experience nor the symbols I use to describe it to myself.
At its most basic level a symbol is simply a tool for mental apprehension, and because symbols and symbolism are apprehended in a person's consciousness, a symbol can be anything. But symbols, helpful and functional as they are, are not who we are, are not as 'real' as we are.
This is why no matter what I do to mentally investigate my experience, if I am intellectually honest, I can never capture the experiential 'essence' of my experience in symbol(s), even in symbol representation to myself. Experience, as experience itself, is and will always be a bit of the 'beyond' we get to have while in between.
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