Life is more than great sex and a nice car._ __ell, yeah. But not a lot more.
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What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.
Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension.
All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.
The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.
Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem simple and absolute; myths define popular realities which are accepted readily, even uncritically.
One day with knowing the reality is better than hundred years without knowing the reality.
Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?
Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they__e water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He__ stupid if he doesn__ know other people__ unhappiness is theirs,And isn__ cured from the outside,Because suffering isn__ like running out of ink,Or a trunk not having iron bands!There being injustice is like there being death.
The meaning of life is to adventurously discover our gift. The purpose of life is joyfully share our gift with the world.
Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person__ history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action.
A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.
The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.
The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?
I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile...I don__ know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in them and in meAnd in our common divinityOf letting ourselves go and live on the EarthAnd carrying us in our arms through the contented SeasonsAnd letting the wind sing us to sleepAnd not have dreams in our sleep.
If life didn't end,' he said, 'there would be no need for me. To choose love in the face if death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more that it otherwise might have been.
The purpose of life is to seek harmony.