What is the purpose of life?What is the real meaning behind life?

Question

i'm confused and want to see what other people think about this topic so answer based on what you think not how others think

were we all sent on earth for a reason
is there something very important that every single on of us has to do

Answer 1

The real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.

Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter.

Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping.

All that a lack of belief will do is make it take longer to how do you discover your real purpose in life . I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals.

Most likely though if you don’t believe you have a purpose, then you probably won’t believe what I’m saying . Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. A master martial artist asked Bruce to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”

If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).

So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge

Here’s what to do:

Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose

Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.

When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.

Answer 2

You're confused because you see no obvious purpose and therefore you want to know if others see a purpose in their lives. If there is a "meaning" behind life then it would be good to know it because then it would remove your confusion.

But: many people have given or asserted various meanings such as being happy etc etc but isn't it surprising that what is meaningful for one person may be be totally unsatisfying for another? Doesn't this imply that meaning (if it even exists) is an individual matter?

To also say every person is here for a reason is a common claim. Why isn't the reason obvious? or is it that we cannot accept the reasons we have been told. For example I might be told my reason to be here is to serve others, or God (if you come from that kind of background), but I might not feel the reason is compelling or believeable for me. It's unsatisfying. Then you might start looking around for a reason that satisfies...so you ask others!

To resolve the question of purpose and meaning requires you to go deeper and deeper into the question itself, confronting the motivations that lie behind the question. The question is an enquiry than might eventually led you to a place where you are truly living and the question won't matter anymore.

Answer 3

There are many purposes common to all of us. Discovery. Love.

And there are purposes unique to individuals. These come to you when you least expect them.

Faith is trust and patience in something beyond your will. Through faith, your individual purposes are revealed to you. When they are, don't refuse them by thinking about them. Be grateful for them. Always grateful.

The poet, Rumi, wrote a great poem about this...

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There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of Spirit on the body.

Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild Darling!

At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.

Close the language-door,
and open the love-window.

The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

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Answer 4

Since there is no one to set us on earth, or decide on a purpose, the added detail is irrelevant.

The world is full of pompous people who have discovered something that seems relevant to them and they then want to be validated by having others adopt a concept, or a method.
If you think you have a purpose, develop the purpose you want to have. Don't let others tell you what it is. That is just self-serving on their part.

Answer 5

This life is test for humans. It has been given to humans by God for reasons only known to him. If we pass the test God will send us to heaven and if we fail we go to hell. Passing this test requires only a few minor adjustments to the way we live our lives. Details of passing thest is explained in a test book called Quran and explained by a teacher named Prophet Muhammad. If we take u this winning way o lie we will get an added bonus of a content life in this world too.

Answer 6

The purpose of life is to follow human nature.

Answer 7

If we were sent to this earth for a reason, then there is a Creator/God.

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (mathematician, philosopher, Nobel Laureate and atheist)

Once we see that our human nature demands purpose and meaning and then we see that purpose requires God, then it is apparent that our human nature requires God.

We can invent things to do with our life that will occupy our time but our inventions are not the reason we were sent here.

Our purpose is to glorify God and then to find our joy in Him forever. Glorify God means to seek God, to let God reveal Himself, to know God and to proclaim His character.

Answer 8

The purpose of life is simple. Thousands of years ago, God made the entire earth and all it's beauty. He made man (and woman) to serve him in every way he want's us to plus spread the religion of christianity. You have to live life to it's fullest and worship god in everything you do.

Answer 9

Personally, I believe life is a test. I think you pass when you try to love your fellow man and treat him/her how you would like someone to treat you. I believe in Heaven and Hell and and, based on your behavior on Earth, you are assigned an eternal place for your soul.

Answer 10

If you read the book A Purpose for a diven life, you will then understand what is life's real purpose.