what is the purpose of life

[Lezi]

I didn't have time to read all the posts yet but I'm just itching to add my 2-cents. I think that we are here to learn from our suffering and also from our happiness. Someone said that we can't learn and experience certain things from the astral etc. so we must experience all that here. There is so much to learn and I think it takes many life times to do so.

We all can tell you what we think our purpose for existing is but in the end it is you who must find out for yourself. Cheers!

[personalreality]

it makes us all feel a lot more significant when we have a purpose, even if we're just deluding ourselves. 

i've said this before and i'll say it again

LIFE is EFIL spelled backwards.

[Xanth]

I had a thought tonight...

What if, beyond experiencing, what we do here is meaningless?

[Naykid]

I had a thought too.....

Why don't people stop being Debbie downers and try and look on the bright side instead of wallowing in self pity.  There's a thought.

[Jarrod]

Actually I think the fact there is no "purpose of life" is a wonderful thing.  An inherent purpose would contradict free will.  The ability to choose is what makes us living beings as apposed to just a bunch of biological machines trying to find our lost directive.

[Stookie]

It's not that it's meaningless, but the meanings we give it tend to be completely and utterly wrong. It's easier to understand after gaining a perspective from the "wider reality" of things. (I don't know how else to word that).

People tend to look at "reality" as the outside world around us, but it's really all in our thinking, willing, and feeling. Those are what dictate our reality around us and how we choose to interact.

[personalreality]

one of the most profound and persistent visions i've ever had is one where i see myself and then the picture zooms out really fast to encompass the whole universe and then i see me again.  i understand it and i understand that it is a representation of the purpose of my life, but i could never explain it, no matter how hard i tried.  but it's not at all what it seems.  not even remotely that simple.  i had to see it many times before i got it.

[Taoistguy]

We ARE the Universe.

[personalreality]

yea, that was the simple answer, but the experience is infinitely complex compared to that.

[Taoistguy]

I bet it was. What with quarks and Chi and black holes and salamanders and cherry cake...

[personalreality]

eww, cherry cake.  lol.

[majour ka]

To awaken...to our true nature

[Xanth]

To awaken...to our true nature

In the scope of my own beliefs of why we're here... that makes no sense.
Could you further elaborate your opinion?

What do you feel our "true nature" is... and why is this something that requires "awakening"? 

[Killa Rican]

There is no purpose.. The spirit world deliberately hides it from us, confuses us, and enjoys seeing fight each other over pointless beliefs behind our backs... O.o

At least try to get the story straight, not give different people different versions of this "truth"

I'm really starting to think that. We have to do all the work to find out purpose and they barely meet us halfway. >=[

[View578]

Seriously, reading kepples article on phasing and his theory makes me wonder why we were brought to be physical beings, i mean whats the point?  We live, we die, we wonder, we realize, we rinse and repeat, it's so mind boggling that, it makes no sense to me.  If we are beings of a higher calling, what purpose does this physical reality life serve?  Idk, just got to thinking and if astral projection is a sign of what happens after you die, then why go through this process?  I mean, if everything that exists in the universe is just energy at a certain frequency, what's the point of physical life if everything beyond that is so much more spectacular.  Don't get me wrong this is not a suicide note or anything lol.  But its just intriguing if this whole idea of astral projection is true and that's what happens when you die, then whats the point of living in the physical world?  When you think about it, what does a person's physical life MEAN in the big picture?

The way I see it, perhaps "soul evolution" helps explain why we're here. We might be souls visiting earth in an attempt to grow a certain way. Perhaps we are merely curious enough to experience what "another dimension" is like.

Paul