2007-07-14 00:00:54 · 22 answers · asked by Mansukh M 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To leave something better than you found it.
2007-07-14 00:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by jackie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thinking through this important question, I come to the conclusion that the ultimate goal should be 'total acceptance' i.e. no preference nor regrets nor desire. Let me explain.
Logically speaking, whatever be the goal, if there still remains a question why, then that goal can not be the 'ultimate' goal. The ultimate goal must be what when achieved leaves no questions..... that can happen to us only when we achieve the state of total acceptance of anything that can happen or everything that happens. Incidentally, total acceptance indeed is the key to True Happiness with complete satisfaction and nothing to disturb the peace and balance of mind.
2007-07-14 08:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To learn the true meaning of the word love.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-07-14 07:04:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everyone must determine this for oneself, but an answer that has meaning for me is this: to reach the end of one's life without regrets. Other answers here would certainly fit into this model. Many would find a life without love or achievement one to regret. Others would find satisfaction in the development of their intelligence or spirituality. Any life which reaches its end in terror (at the prospect of dying) or despair (at the prospect of having to continue living) is a failure to achieve this ultimate goal.
2007-07-14 08:06:41 · answer #4 · answered by Captain Atom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo probably mean in life? Well if you do the clear answer is don't drive your into the ground... Furfill your targets and go and proceed to become a better person. Get get through school/university then get a job then get married then have kids then portect their kids then enjoy a hobby for a couple of decades and then of course die... The ultimate goal in life is to be the good samaritin be the better person and do not crumple to the evil wills of others and if you smoke quite. YOUR LIFE BELONGS TO YOU NOT FATE
2007-07-14 07:21:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are basically two kinds of people. Ones that like to ride on boats and ones that like to make boats go. You can tell what kind of person each is by asking them this question. When I was young, last century, more people would have answered something about the betterment of mankind. Soon, at this pace, we'll have no ships, just a flotilla of rowboats.
2007-07-14 08:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To Follow Your Bliss. To overcome factors--both internal and external--that create fear, doubt, shame. To be respectful and not do harm (trickier than it sounds). To know that you live in the world and not above it. To help. TO live with an attitude of gratitude. And to quote Theodore Roosevelt:
Do what you can
Where you are
with what you have
2007-07-14 08:13:02 · answer #7 · answered by ObscureB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it's trying to enjoy life to the fullest and to make the most out of what I have because others will always have something I don't have.
2007-07-14 07:34:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mrs. Midnightbully 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is:
Success (of long dreamt dreams and lifes desires)
which leads to satisfaction of desires, peace with all and oneself, love for others and all, happiness and a sense of gratitude for nature and this world enabling service and help.
2007-07-14 14:36:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
- Ayn Rand
2007-07-14 11:32:07 · answer #10 · answered by Crazy M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fullfillment of the purpose of one's nature in accord with virtue.
2007-07-14 07:43:31 · answer #11 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋