I thought about it. You can never live a life without a purpose. You will always have a purpose or aim, at every stage of life.
We decide to do nothing with life- it is still a purpose of doing nothing.
That’s what the Gita says. Doing nothing isn’t a purpose when you do whatever needs doing but not because you want to do it. It’s an aimless existence and to that extent it’s purposeless. What do you think?
How can one be emotionless?This makes us humans.
We can say that they have control over things but love is universal and cannot be controlled.
We can and should talk about this.
Monks are different, that is the thing about them. Read about them and you would know. Their lives are total opposite of ours; they live simply without “desires”. Desires make all the difference here.
I read about spiritualism, monks, desires and that is how I am concluding this.
I could be wrong about all this.
But you know.
I can’t debate when I don’t have much knowledge and you certainly have more than me.So I’ll value what you say. 🙂
Love is a river, flowing and finding it ways come what may. Love is an energy which doesn’t destroy. Love is a soul and soul is eternal. To love means to love with imperfections, in anger and in fears. If it is conditional and selfish it is not love.
I don’t need to. Look at the umpteen Catholic priests accused of sodomy, or nearer home at the innumerable ‘baba’s who just want to give women worshipers their “personal amrit”. We’re all human and pretending otherwise doesn’t change that one bit
It seems easy to say that some live aimless life, but we are wanting and desiring something for ourselves and that becomes our purpose, unless we are monks. I remember writing a post about purpose of life, learning a long time ago.
In the end we find out that the purpose of life is life itself. We came here in order to live a physical life and expand our inner Self into the outer world. That is what gives this life a meaning.
Precisely and beautifully said, Erika. As I read this few days back, “You don’t live once, but you die once, you live everyday,” It was quite what I framed, but meant exactly the same.
Interesting…could love be a purpose? Love does not need to have a purpose but does it need an object or person. Or can one just be in love with life itself. Pondering…..
Love can be a purpose. I think one can be in love with life, him/herself, object or a person.
After comments I realized that this one line has opened so many questions, interpretations and thoughts. Is it good, I wonder?
Yes I would
But we can just discuss you no
Not a fight or argument
But exchange of thoughts
To arrive to a better understanding
You share your views I share mine
Then we both learn something new
That’s how we grow right ?
Since what you quote in post n my comment are a bit on different route
Sure, we can.
I quoted what I believed and I replied a yes to your perceptive because yours have come from your experience and mine has come from my own experiences 🙂
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A purposeless love could still mean something, a purposeless life could not? Would one lead to the other? Maybe.
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I thought about it. You can never live a life without a purpose. You will always have a purpose or aim, at every stage of life.
We decide to do nothing with life- it is still a purpose of doing nothing.
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That’s what the Gita says. Doing nothing isn’t a purpose when you do whatever needs doing but not because you want to do it. It’s an aimless existence and to that extent it’s purposeless. What do you think?
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Do monks fall in love?
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I am sure they do.
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They are away from love and desires. Maybe this is debatable.
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How can one be emotionless?This makes us humans.
We can say that they have control over things but love is universal and cannot be controlled.
We can and should talk about this.
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Monks are different, that is the thing about them. Read about them and you would know. Their lives are total opposite of ours; they live simply without “desires”. Desires make all the difference here.
I read about spiritualism, monks, desires and that is how I am concluding this.
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I could be wrong about all this.
But you know.
I can’t debate when I don’t have much knowledge and you certainly have more than me.So I’ll value what you say. 🙂
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I am relying on whatever knowledge that I have gained through those texts and books. 🙂
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Oh,I believe you and after all the books can do wonders,open so many doors.
But a general question for you – What are your views about love?
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Love is a river, flowing and finding it ways come what may. Love is an energy which doesn’t destroy. Love is a soul and soul is eternal. To love means to love with imperfections, in anger and in fears. If it is conditional and selfish it is not love.
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Beautiful. 🙂
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I’m sure they do.
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Romantic love?
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Yup. They might repress, deny, or sublimate, but they do.
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Oh, well, never thought of that! Have you met one?
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I don’t need to. Look at the umpteen Catholic priests accused of sodomy, or nearer home at the innumerable ‘baba’s who just want to give women worshipers their “personal amrit”. We’re all human and pretending otherwise doesn’t change that one bit
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They are not monks, they pretend to be! They are hungry wolfs in disguise of satisfied human.
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That’s as may be, but do you think they started out as wolves?
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You didn’t correct me!
That is hard to tell. It’s all about their intentions.
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Although there are commonalities. This one is really greatly put, Kritika. I would even say: Life doesn’t need a purpose, life is the purpose.
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Sure there are.
I wrote this thinking that we all are here finding a purpose.
Thank you, Erika.
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I love that idea a lot. You always find wonderful wonderful words and short phrases for big messages.
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It seems easy to say that some live aimless life, but we are wanting and desiring something for ourselves and that becomes our purpose, unless we are monks. I remember writing a post about purpose of life, learning a long time ago.
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In the end we find out that the purpose of life is life itself. We came here in order to live a physical life and expand our inner Self into the outer world. That is what gives this life a meaning.
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Precisely and beautifully said, Erika. As I read this few days back, “You don’t live once, but you die once, you live everyday,” It was quite what I framed, but meant exactly the same.
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Yes, definitely another wonderful way to state that. Love it.
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I know, right! 🙂
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💖 😊
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Interesting…could love be a purpose? Love does not need to have a purpose but does it need an object or person. Or can one just be in love with life itself. Pondering…..
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Love can be a purpose. I think one can be in love with life, him/herself, object or a person.
After comments I realized that this one line has opened so many questions, interpretations and thoughts. Is it good, I wonder?
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I think you’ve opened a wonderful and ponderous dialogue. There is no clear cut answer and yet I’m glad you posted it.
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I had this thought and posted it immediately. I am glad too, I getting to know how others think about it.
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What if I have to say
Love is the sole purpose of life 🙂
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I would agree 🙂
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Oh that makes two of us then 🙂
I was wondering you would say other wise and we would have this long discussion of thoughts
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No. Everybody has their own perspective and thoughts. If I want people to respect my perspective, I will first have to respect their. 🙂
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Yes I would
But we can just discuss you no
Not a fight or argument
But exchange of thoughts
To arrive to a better understanding
You share your views I share mine
Then we both learn something new
That’s how we grow right ?
Since what you quote in post n my comment are a bit on different route
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Sure, we can.
I quoted what I believed and I replied a yes to your perceptive because yours have come from your experience and mine has come from my own experiences 🙂
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God Bless You
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I can only hope that it is not sarcastic, because if you respond that to a discussion then it isn’t respectful.
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Oh no no
I mean you are so nice to be considerate about others view. No negation.
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I don’t have a habit of arguing about “feelings”.
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So you may say what you feel 🙂
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Absolutely and you should. 🙂
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A philosophical take on love and life… good one… 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Love has a purpose too,to make life worth living!
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What I meant is you don’t need a reason to love.
What you have written can also be thought of.
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Yes I second that, you don’t need a reason,love is unconditional! Thoughtful 🙂
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🙂
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Love is often misunderstood when desire creeps into the mix!
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Thank you!
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Satisfied after reading the comments 😀
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I doubt! xD
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Me too doubtful 😀 but zyada information milne se confuse hone k b chances hote hai 😀
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You must skip it then 😛
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Can’t and won’t skip it all 😀 Will have some and may have all also 😛
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If you want that, go ahead xD
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Show me the way 😉
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It is where you are commenting. We are still talking about comments, right?
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Most probably yes 😀 now a days, my mind is not functioning smoothly as it used to 😉 but yes, its still about the comments here 🙂
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Phew! 😀
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