Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The quotation expresses a characteristically Campbellian, existential reading of “meaning”: life is not a container with a pre-installed purpose that one discovers by analysis, but a field in which meaning is enacted. The shift from “asking the question” to “you are the answer” reframes the search for purpose as a lived practice—through commitments, creative work, relationships, and the acceptance of one’s own calling—rather than a purely intellectual problem. It also echoes Campbell’s broader emphasis on myth as a set of symbolic maps for living, not a set of propositions to prove. Meaning, on this view, is generated by participation and responsibility, not found as an external fact.