Whoever experiments, lives. Isn't the meaning of life that it be lived?

Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927)

What it means

Jung refused to hand out a finished philosophy of life. Each person is nature trying something new. The point is not to get the theory right first but to live it.

The source

"Whoever experiments, lives. Isn't the meaning of life that it be lived?" Carl Jung said it in Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempted new combination. Whoever experiments lives, and indeed, is it not the meaning of life, that it be lived?"

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927). Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "Whoever experiments, lives. Isn't the meaning of life that it be lived?" mean?: Jung refused to hand out a finished philosophy of life. Each person is nature trying something new. The point is not to get the theory right first but to live it.
Who said "Whoever experiments, lives. Isn't the meaning of life that it be lived?"?: Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927).
What is the original wording?: our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempted new combination. Whoever experiments lives, and indeed, is it not the meaning of life, that it be lived? (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
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"Whoever experiments, lives. Isn't the meaning of life that it be lived?" (Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927), trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/whoever-experiments-lives-isnt-the-meaning-of-life