My ultimate goal is to be happy. Not some sort of pleasure-filled hedonism, although there may be some days when one splurges. Rather a general contentment with life where I can wake up and be excited about the day, come home from work and be excited to see my loved ones, go to work and be excited.
"You understand well enough what slavery is, but freedom you have never experienced, so you do not know if it tastes sweet or bitter. If you ever did come to experience it, you would advise us to fight for it not with spears only, but with axes too." - Herodotus
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Man's goal change. When you scale a height and once you are there you visualize greater heights or peaks. Goal is not static and we cannot stick to goal.
I had so many goals in life. At one time I wanted to be a poet and suddenly it changed and I chose to be a prose writer later on, and now actually I am a banker and want to be promoted to higher ranks or have positions. Maybe I can be satisfied with that as much as I could with poetry.
Nothing is static and everything is in flux in this world. Values change, our interest change and faiths too.
Then how can I say I have a goal and I live up to it throughout my life.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
I used to think of ultimate goals which put too much weight on my shoulders. Now I think of minor goals so that I can reach it and get the feeling that I achieved sth in my life.
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Worrying to much about reaching the one big goal in life will probably lead to not reaching anything at all.
I try to live a happy life and most times there's more than one way to achieve that ..
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I don't have any particular goal besides to love and be loved.
That said, I've always found this quote to be quite a summation of my perception of life, it's from Godard's first film Breathless, the character who says it is responding to the same question:
"To become immortal and then to die."
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
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My ultimate goal is. . . . .to keep on searchin' brother. Just never stop lookin'.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
Don't suck.
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My goal in life is to continually be spiraling out intellectually, as well as physically (i.e. to always be challenging myself in some way; to push my mind and body to their limits). But in the end, my goal is to be able to close my eyes at the end of the day (maybe even for the last time) with a satisfied mind. I love this world oh so dearly - but, when I go, I want a grin on my face and peace in my mind.
Last edited by eric.bell; 03-29-2010 at 08:30 PM.
I have many practical goals but as an 'ultimate' goal this sums it up for me. I want to focus on my own happiness, but I do not want to be in a constant state of want. I want to be satisfied with my life and my work, regardless of whether I have wealth or extravagance.Originally Posted by Drkshadow03
Our goals change, or rather should change throughout our lives. My father wanted me to do modelling, I was more interested in the other side of the camera.. but never got down to it. And so, your thread gives birth to a new goal. Photography. I shall add it to my list. lol.
But on a more serious note, my spiritual goal is to learn to give more than what I ask, and thats no easy task. Giving covers a lot a ground which I peg as I slowly go. 'Giving' means giving up a lot of habits too, like pride. Giving benefit of the doubt.
I liken goals to cups of coffees and we want change in tastes and the same taste does not appetize us all the time. I wanted to be something and now I am that with this I am more bored, borer than when I was none of it
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
That's a very good answer.
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-Pi
My goal? I have several goals, and they are changing every time. My initial goal was to be a great devotee and I prayed and prayed and prayed but God never heard my prayers and I changed my goal. I wanted to be a good teacher and taught for a few years and got fed up finally that I never could anything new and all I have taught them was already intrinsically in them and I shrank from teaching. I wanted to be a writer thinking that I will enlighten my readers but realized that by already thought by others and I only was an imitator or an unauthorized copier of my predecessors.
Now what goals should I have? Is there any worthwhile goal? I am contemplating for eternity
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Since it won't happen in my life-time, I want to contribute my bit to the advancement of humans whose ultimate goal is to take complete control of their destiny, to become masters of the universe, to become gods or what we make of him/her/it.
"Don't need a gun to blow your mind"
Yes this fantasy has always driven us and this reminds me Marlow's Dr. Faustus he bargained his soul with the devil and of course man has progressed terrifically even at the cost of the environment he is in. Today our world speaking environmentally is a worse place to live in, but technologically we are advancing. We of course there can not be a balance.
Taking complete control of natural forces, destiny and everything man has been master but in some ways man is weaving a trap that will ambush in a while
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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