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Originally Posted by FazK  I think it's great that you found your purpose in life so young, although it does sound a bit airy fairy why don't why try achieve something more concrete than creating happiness |
Well, originally I wrote things like "social justice," "spiritual justice," and then eventually it started sounding way too much like Steve's purpose, which I didn't like at all. Living consciously, courageously, and loving. That sounds great and all, but I think it's
too concrete for me. I know that happiness is created out of love, courage, and consciousness. I don't feel I need to write all those things out. The
purpose of those things is happiness and freedom from suffering. All I know right now is that I suffer a lot... I make myself suffer so much, one way or another... and that is what drives me to change myself, to change the world, to be a vegan activist, to go to school, "not to seek for love, but to seek and find all the barriers within that I have built to it."
I like this one, too, by Arundhati Roy:
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
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or this :O
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the answer is NOT to stop loving, NOT to stop caring, NOT to add to the darkness. The answer is to love more, deeper, wider. To love despite the darkness and the pain. Indeed, to love because of it. To love those who need it most desperately, not only those we happen to like, to love because your love is profoundly, vitally needed, not because it is self-gratifying. To love as though life depended on it. It does.
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I can't come up with anything like this... I'll end up just creating a collage of the quotes I know, heh. Those guide the way, for sure, but I don't feel I truly understand them. What I do understand is that, every day, I am driven to free myself and others from suffering. Even when life completely confuses me... when I feel totally lost, I know this: I want to be free.