A lot of questions
 

Does life make sense?

Our longing for fullness of life is limitless and our hope survives destruction and chaos. Once we have reached a goal, the progress of seeking further continues; we are open, free and fit for endlessness. Man is the only being that has the task of planning and leading his life into an uncertain future. With our freedom, however, begins our responsibility to choose what is right and good. Freedom can be agony for us, especially if we have to consider decisions for the entire life. But even if we know all the consequences in advance, we often make decisions which go against what is good for ourselves and our fellow men. What kind of forces make us able to act in a way that is senseless?
 

Again, we face the mystery of the human being. To whom are we finally responsible, where do we find the norms for good and evil? Why do we suffer from our failures, our wrong decisions, but still continue to act in the same way? Of what use are our talents, our ability to reach beyond all limits, our openness, if we are still tied to this world, if death is our radical end? Indications point beyond our human existence, but where to? Maybe all this indicates that we live at a borderline, between time and eternity. Or is there another reality shining through, other than the one in which we live?
 

Where does the ride go? 
 

The question about the purpose of life is asked again and again, particularly by young people. Many avenues are tried to find a goal: meditation, social engagement, renunciation of consumption and also: drugs, alcohol, impersonal sex, aggression ... Many of these routes lead in the wrong direction and prove to be dead ends. The finding that none of these attempts lead to any goal has recently resulted in a change of mood: aggression has turned to depression and optimism to resignation. The jobless person or the youth who cannot make a career in the profession of his choice, the person who repeatedly sees all his hopes destroyed will easily come to the conclusion there is just no use ... nothing makes sense!
 

We are convinced that it is honest and also reasonable not to capitulate too hastily, because, surprisingly, the majority of humankind does not despair. There is a secret assumption that life makes sense. And it is more than just an assumption, as countless people can testify who have found the purpose of their life - a purpose which allows them to live and even die full of hope.
 

Occasionally, dangerously ill persons make an astonishing recovery because they still have a goal for which they want to live. But a person who sees his own life as lacking any sense and purpose is not only unhappy, but hardly fit to continue living (Albert Einstein).