e.g., how do you find meaning in life?
short level 1 - they exhort me to take a certain attitude/action and i will figure it out through this attitude/action. e.g., meaning comes from compassion.
short level 2 - they sound really deep, or simple, or useless, all at once. when i locate my true self, i will locate my purpose and meaning in life.
short level 3 - they might sound depressing but they're actually true. e.g. meaning is an illusion. deal with it.
long level 1 - an extended list of stories and things to do at the practical level. the emphasis is on action, and less so on too much thinking.
long level 2 - an exploration of the myriad of possibilities, the number of paths, loops, dead-ends might even become overwhelming. this is the great fog before next level. so easy to get lost here.
long level 3 - the answers are in some ways unexplainable via words, and the only way is to "feel" the answers. we need all these little stories and analogies to indirectly remind ourselves, or perhaps, to create an illusion on top of an illusion.
and of course, we don't get to choose which level we're at. i go up sometimes, i crash down a lot of times.
