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Old 03-20-2009, 10:53 AM   #14 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Is there any purpose of life other than procreating.
Life requires procreation as a precondition, but life does not require procreation as a "post-condition."

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What good is life if in the end we all die?
Without death, there would be no such thing as life. What good is death if one does not choose to live while alive?

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There is no end goal and I'm not enjoying the journey.
The journey is the goal.

These ideas are not new; they are thousands of years old.

You are not alone in your despair.

We are all interconnected—throughout the universe.

We "inter-are."

Sometimes desire might seem the answer, but often it is desire that is getting in the way. Sometimes you have to let go of it awhile to see what you are here to do.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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