What keeps you waking up each morning, breathing, living, moving forward? Toward what are you striving?
I am not referring to union with Source or All That Is, but your physical reality, which is colored by your spiritual Self -- who / what are you going to be when you grow up?
2007-09-25 12:59:13 · 22 answers · asked by Shihan 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(((Raji))) -- you are indeed a teacher.
2007-09-25 15:11:27 · update #1
(((Madpol))) -- very funny!
And how appropriate that my trickster friend (((Coyote))) follows a fellow trickster! So loving, so understanding.
2007-09-25 15:25:50 · update #2
(((Sunman)))...how many other R&S women (and men for that matter) have simply fallen in love with you???
2007-09-25 15:56:00 · update #3
(((Squirt))). You work so hard at it, it makes me proud.
2007-09-25 23:18:57 · update #4
(((Morgana))). I am there with you on the motherhood issue. Never had the opportunity, and I feel that missing part of me. I am resolved to it, recognizing that not all of us are intended for that purpose. I shall nurture in other ways, for sure.
2007-09-25 23:21:57 · update #5
My life is all about learning. Learning as much about as many different things as I possibly can. I REALIZE that I will NEVER know everything about everything, not even everything about ONE single thing. That holds absolutely NO meaning or relevance tome at all. God and Goddess put me here to LEARN, and THAT is what I intend to continue to do until the very instant of my death.
One thing I HAVE learned is to be a teacher. The BEST teachers learn MORE than they teach to others. Teaching is a mutual exchange of knowledge and wisdom and if a teacher fails to learn from the student then he/she has NOT done a good job at all.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-09-25 14:53:52 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The primary purpose of all living creatures is to reproduce more of their own kind. There is a whole lot of other stuff that we do, learn, experience, teach, and know in our lives, but if we have any purpose COLLECTIVELY AS A SPECIES then it is to have babies. This is not aimed at any individuals who maybe chose not to have kids or whatever.
If we as a species fail to reproduce, we end our existence as a species. That's why it is our primary purpose. I also find it for myself as an individual, it just so happens that, at least right now an din the time I am now living, my primary role is that of mother. We go through many roles in our lives. I can't think of one that is more important than this one.
Many blessings,
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-09-25 17:06:26 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question. Purpose, with a capital P, is meaningless to me. But I often struggle with my doubts that I have a life.
What keeps me waking up, not necessarily in the morning, is the need to urinate.
What keeps me breathing is sucking in air to accomodate the coughing spasms.
What keeps me living is that I don't seem to be allowed to die yet.
What keeps me moving forward is I've already seen what lies behind.
I strive toward nothing. I just keep myself entertained and share in the wisdom that lies in everyone's story, while offering my own to those with eyes to see.
My physical reality is that there are no grownups. We grow every day that we live. Tricksters mellow, learn, mature and refine--but we never grow up.
2007-09-25 15:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no more striving here. I love most days...mainly nature. The change of climate, rain, sunshine, wind, dark clouds, all the animals.
The squirrels and chip monks are busily gathering nuts and hiding them everywhere! How do they find them? I especially love the Fall.
To truly be with life...the good, bad and the ugly...celebrating creation in it's zillions of manifestations is grand.
I hope to never grow up! Seeing things fresh...like for the first time!
2007-09-26 15:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Eve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Failing miserably - apparently - but still trying to pass down a wealth of knowledge and experience to those born of my seed, and to all that sail over my horizon. To learn something every single day. Just to enjoy the whole confusing experience - for we only get the opportunity of this day once. To smile with a glad heart for the small satisfactions of a partial achievement of this aim. Truly I know not how I got here - but I am grateful for the opportunities.
2007-09-26 00:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by scrambulls 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dear friend, I do believe I have a purpose in this life but I couldn't say exactly which one that is. According to astrology and numerology, I am destined to be an educator, which is what I am though there are many things that I'd like to do an be, so I suppose that one has several purposes that reveal themselves in the course of life and one is directed towards their fulfilment. I'm still young to identify them but I trust I will learn during my life and that is my main purpose for the moment.
((((((hugs))))))
2007-09-25 13:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by Der weiße Hexenmeister 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God would not have hair and would not stay interior the sky. What may be the huge-unfold clarification why an person of in any different case sound innovations could insist upon the rationally untenable concept that the universe exists without an beginning place, or that its beginning place befell and not employing a pre-cutting-edge reason?
2016-11-06 09:13:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when I grow up I want to be bigger
not sure that is going to happen at 37 though lol
but I strive to bring peace
both in my household and to others further afield
just to see people content and happy
it is what I live for and I feel is my purpose in life
2007-09-25 13:05:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Caring for my children. That is my only purpose. When I grow up, I hope I am a woman with two healthy, happy, caring, intelligent, self-confident adult sons. I have no other major goals beyond that.
2007-09-25 13:12:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My goal is do do something to change the world for the better somehow. I don't know how big a difference I'll be able to make, but I want my life to be worth something to other people.
2007-09-25 13:08:22 · answer #10 · answered by JavaGirl ~AM~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋