“Produce a unitary picture of the world.” This is the starting point of Jung’s answer to the question of meaning. Meaning is not philosophical or theoretical. Meaning is the power that comes from daily experiences and necessities. Meaning is the experience of totality. Experiencing meaning depends on awareness of life’s transcendental or spiritual reality, which complements empirical reality and together forms a whole. A soul suffers that has not discovered meaning; suffers from a sense of futility and spiritual emptiness. Reality is lived in both time and timelessness, in ego consciousness as well as in the transcendent, thus Life is lived only when it is a touchstone for the Truth of the Spirit. The meaning of life is the realization of the self, or, “to make what fate intends to do with us entirely our own intention.”
(Jung paraphrased)