The meaning of life

Another excerpt from Conversations with God that I really like:

"Here is the meaning, the purpose of Your Life: to create Yourself, to create Who You Are. To express, to experience, to declare, to fulfill, to be, Who You Really Are.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about Who You Are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Once you understand this, things start to change. You start seeing everything with a new perspective, you start placing everything you do in context.

With every decision, every thought you have, every word you say, every deed you do, ask yourself: Is this Who I Am? And things will start to change. And you will know, as you create Her, Who You Are."

In other words, every time you are about to do something, you may want to ask yourself: "Is this Who I Really Am?" It sounds utterly silly, but it is actually very helpful. Some of friends share with me their existential crises, and it often boils down to this basic thing: they perceive a GAP between who they ARE and who they WANT TO BE. They know there is a gap, yet they do not seem to pull themselves together and fill the gap. In fact, most of them seem to have a strong BELIEF that the gap between who they are and who they want to be cannot be filled, and, instead of moving in the direction of who they want to be (i.e. Who They Really Are), they rationalize the existence of this gap. I had done exactly this for many years before I "woke up", so I am quite familiar with this!

Another corollary thought is this: is there any point living a life that has already been lived?