In a transcendence-oriented view, the continually present question of our lives is this: if there is a path hidden within my journey through life whose meaning has not yet been disclosed to me, how can I take each step in a way that brings me closer than before to the final aim at the end of that path?
In this view, it is not we who rise in search of the meaning of our life. Rather, the meaning of our life is hidden and always present within us, and we will find it only when we are ready to encounter it.

The great question of life, then, is not where we will find meaning. The greater question is how we can recover the readiness to receive the meaning that lies within us.
With every step toward living in truth—toward transforming chaos into order and ugliness into beauty, within ourselves and in the external world—we reduce the density of the fog before our eyes. With every step toward the transcendence of ourselves and the world, we give our vision greater clarity and increase our readiness to meet our destiny, until one day we find the meaning of our life and our destiny standing before us and can accept it with dignity.

Aydin Areta