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Ooops. I'm never placing these rightOriginally Posted by Logos
Thank you Logos!
Shall these bones live?
This list is a very good match for my personal beliefs, especially #2 and #5. I would add:
To create within oneself an awareness of the interconnectedness of all and an understanding of the impact of our actions -- on others, on the environment around us, and on the spiritual path that we have chosen to follow.
To live as much as possible in a spirit of truthfulness and thankfulness, and in a manner that hurts no one, including oneself.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
“Family” is the “self”
in selflessness,
those other essences
that are somehow
more oneself
than ego is
(Poor, self-absorbed
ego) and as one’s family
grows to become
a family of families
one may feel one’s self
touch the familiar
outer reaches
of humanity.
Outstanding. You weren't kidding when you said Intelligent, humane and creative. I'm very impressed. Thank you, Prince.
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Gosh, I really can't believe it's getting better all the time. How beautifully put.
Thank you again, Sir.
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Experiance all that comes and learn from it.
I was struck by the beauty of this. It allows both vulnerability (i.e. I don't really know if or how I exist) and compassion (but I will walk softly in the world despite the fear this lack of surety must sometimes generate) to coexist. Brilliantly done Bakiryu.
I've always found it rather exciting to remember that there is a difference between what we experience and what we think it means.
There is always a weakness when responding to this type of question to answer not what is truly in the mind, but to offer that which sounds good, and feeds that ever hungry ego. We are always ready to risk a choking halo.
We see it in the answers given by the Miss Universes, and other beauty contest winners.
Maybe, it is sometimes how we would like ourselves to be, but the truth, if it were known, belies the fine sounding clichés.
This is one of the quirks of the mind, it constantly searches for the truth from others, but is very selective, and reserved, in providing it.
I will attempt to give my honest one, and I do try to make it work, though it is a struggle at times to keep it at the forefront.
Mine is this: To accept life not as a gift but a loan, a lone that can be called
in at any time. It is therefore in my interest to value the loan, and thank my
Creditor. A loan is meant to be used wisely, to bring benefit. From our nature and nurture we are fed with information from which we make choices.
We get a profit, or loss, in the way we 'invest' this loan (our time) from the choices we make. Errors in some bad choices are not negatives, if we learn from them.
For true happiness with self, I have found from self observation, and of others, that it is necessary to have a goal. If and when reached, to set another one. Always have something to make you look forward, and to drive you.
Appreciation, not taking things for granted, be that life itself, friends, relatives, and those amenities we have today just as simple as going to the
the tap and finding we have running water. I try to remind myself that not long ago it would have been an undreamed of luxury, and there are places today where it still is.
I will actually think of this when I go to the tap, or use the shower. or pick up the phone and speak to someone thousands of miles away, or watch pictures being beamed to me for my enjoyment and relaxation. No one need be 'lonely' today. It is so easy to take these things for granted.
Yes, Appreciation, of everything, and that means giving thanks - something I close my eyes with at night, and with which I wake up in the morning by going to the window and gazing out at my panoramic view of London, for which I am particularly thankful, and saying (sometimes shouting) 'Good morning World!
Have a great day! Enjoy, invest your loan wisely, you never know when it will be called in.
Last edited by Midas; 07-23-2007 at 02:04 PM.
The tradgedy of life is-it's after something which it can never reach.we all seek for stability,but in the end all we ever get is endless,constant instability.
you'll find the evidence of it everywhere.for example,look at the basic element of life,electrons(dont want want to deal with quarks or more fundamental elements,dont wish to freak you out!)-electrons keeps changing their position all the time.seems like all they want is forming octate-TO MAKE THE COMPOUND STABLE.but it's seems to be their fate never to be stable,but they are destined to keep chasing it.tragic,huh?
didn't like this type of `fundamental' interpretation? okay,lets take up a broader view! now,look at the universe.wht is it doing?scientists say it is EXPANDING.okay,fine.it can't go on expanding for eternity.there will be a time when it will yawn and say,okay,hasn't it been already long enough expanding?it will take rest for a while and say-why not give CONTRACTION a chance?it has already fulfilled its destiny,reached peace(or in other words- stability)for a while and again it will start running...run,run,this is how you are fated...this time backwards.at last,it reaches again its initial state-it becomes a point again.a calm,still point.waiting to explode...again...to reach its ever-desired state...a long way to go...
so no wonder life is a race.when the whole universe is trapped in this rule,how can we deny it?
Keep running friends,to keep pace with the rest of everything.see if u can ever get the meaning of this law.if you do,then you'll know what is THE MEANING OF LIFE & EVERYTHING.
This is a very insightful point. Often we hide behind the veil of what we 'think' we ought to say, instead of saying what we mean.
For me it is simple, what gives my life meaning is:
- to be happy
- to feel like I'm achieving something
- to be loved
and that's it. I don't think anyone can expect anything more than that.
the meaning of life is life and love, i mean everything in life has a meaning. so the meaning of life is all of those things. meaning or purpose. to eat and to drink have a purpose, to sleep and to walk have purposes, all of that, and they all together make up the meaning or purpose of life...but mainly love and happiness. the book the farther reaches of human nature by a. maslow has some interesting ideas about values and fact-values.
I have been reading this thread and thinking how I might respond, and until now coming up blank.
What occurred to me is that I judge my life by what I have done, what things I choose to do in a day, in a year.
So this is, for me, a list of the things I do repeatedly in my life.
1. put myself in situations where I am a visible minority
2. put myself in situations where I am an ethnic minority
3. choose things because they are the hardest things I can think of to do
4. try to understand things that are all but non comprehensible (like string theory without advanced mathematics)
6. try to understand from where we come
7. try to understand the place in which we live
8. try to understand what will come of our past behaviors
I do this by reading, thinking and wandering around the world watching.
I've always found it rather exciting to remember that there is a difference between what we experience and what we think it means.
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, its great fodder for discussion as you've given a spin on that timeless philosophical question--what is your instead of what is the meaning of life.
