Deleuze: 'Life will no longer be made to appear before the categories of thought; thought will be thrown into the categories of life'. this amounts to a conversion or revolution in thought. the relevant insight is that the question of the meaning of life is a false problem, for it seeks to displace a living, breathing, thinking person in favour of a completed thought expressing a meaning or purpose. This would be to mistake the greater for the less, so that one attempts to regulate the greater by the lesser. it is the gesture of taking a perspective produced by life, nature and history as though it stood entirely outside. Rejecting such claims to know transcendent reality, the immanentist revolution consists in encountering life within thought, within the forces that count so much as how you think. For immanence means ethos: It is a way of thinking and dwelling ...

Phaedrus, in Philip Goodchild's On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise