What is your life's mission?

My life's purpose:

To crush my enemies.

To see them driven before me.

And to hear the lamentation of their women.

when growing up my mission (#1) was to explore the nonordinary world,
read dozens of philosophers, understand 'modern art', read most
every religion, delve into the mystical worlds & the psychic realms,
practic yoga, play hockey, wrestling, pole vaulting, join Army
then be active in Veterans Against (the Vietnam) War, in DC

Took 3 years to live the hippie life...Later when starting a family,
work nights in print shop, college in daytime...5 years worth.
Found a monetary need to learn auto mechanics, and other practical Trades,
built a house in 2 years part-time while still working a job.

After 25 years at the east coast beaches, the kids grown & self-reliant
i was given a Quest to go to the desert: mission (#3)...traveled in AZ.,
where i finally seen the Arabs taking flight lessons at the Scottsdale airport,
reported to FBI, and that was my mission Quest for that decade.


for the last 14 years, my mission is to remain available & approachable
by the others who have unsettled mind-soul about the paradigm shifts
of this 21st century (2012 for short).
mission (#4): a reluctant old soul who is not any sort of counselor,
but karma has rewarded me & i must continue to earn my place in this
closing of the age.

reply to post by jerico65


seems pretty ambitious - for a porn star

good for you

:-)

reply to post by plutoxgirl


Being human is a strange state of conflicts. Sometimes, we wish to conform. Others, we want to stand out. Being normal is to be lauded, while being mediocre is to be feared. Its the same state but changing the way you say it -- normal versus mediocre -- makes the same state mean different things.

Some people suffer in the modern mindset everyday is that we expect the impossible from our all too human selves. Men and women are expecting themselves to be able to play all roles, to be able to construct work, home, family and play successfully and beautifully. The inability to exercise a divine omnipotence in perfecting our lives and our influence among those around us may plague too many with a sense of failure. There are those with overblown sense of responsibility and of expectation from what they should be.

Its human to be a bit stupid with our dreams. However, it is important to remember that we live in an age of overpopulation and standing out is unlikely as ever. No matter where you are in the hierarchy, there will be someone who is better. There will be a better scientist, cook, friend, lover, mathematician or blogger.

I'm as guilty as anyone of sometimes fantasising of doing something that matters, of being responsible for a breakthrough in this or that, of changing the world. Everyone's already working on the problems, on the ideas you can have. All you can do is help.

The world is too big for you to change anything hugely significant in it alone.

I'm not proposing that aspiring itself is wrong. That's also not socially constructive: how would we have achieve progress thinking that way? What is actually wrong is allowing the inability to achieve a near impossibility as soul crushing or depressing.

Greatness is local. I believe where meaning and satisfaction lies is in what difference you make to the people in front of you and around you. You start with the self, the home, the community and then the country. Everything follows by the local examples you set and changes you make; this should also be where you find happiness.

There is greatness in attending properly to a child, in a job well done, in helping a neighbour, in generating local safety, in teaching a lesson, in preventing a crime by your or others, in inspiring someone, in contributing towards collective knowledge and in everyday kindness.

That's where I see greatness and that's where I appreciate it

Our only true mission in life is to WAKE UP and REMEMBER who we are. This is commonly known as "Awakening" or "Enlightenment".

The inevitable truth is that- You are God.

And when a person has their "awakening", this is so obvious and simple that you laugh and say "OMG (ha)....I REMEMBER!"

Some experience Awakening thru the use of entheogens....some thru meditation, fasting, sensory deprivation, drumming, dancing....anything that can induce enough of an altered state to put the Ego in a box long enough for your TRUE SELF to awake. It happens in an INSTANT. Total and utter realization...w/o any doubt. And you feel like you are finally HOME. This is why we are here! To find ourselves.

We are all God playing hide-n-seek for our own entertainment!

As for the "scale" of things......it means nothing when the universe is a hologram! EVERY PIECE contains the whole. (like DNA in every cell) The universe is God's body and we are all thoughts of God. Exploring consciousness is the ONLY true path to "space travel"........Your mind is not limited by something so trivial as the speed of light.

Namaste-
-Boypony

I like deep questions such as yours OP.

My lifes purpose?

I enjoy learning, thus why I come to ATS to peruse through random topics. But in the midst, I feel that learning as much as possible, eventually, will be for a much more important purpose. an example

I've learned a lot about cars, I enjoy fixing them and knowing about each and every piece of a vehicle. So when someone on the side of road looks like they could use a hand I will stop and help them w/ the knowledge I've learned and that knoweldge along with the positive/friendly spiritual energy... inspires something inside of tha tperson to do something good. The same goes w/ computers... I've helped many w/ computer issues at no charge and helped them to more fluently use them.

so...

#1. To Learn as much as possible
#2. To Interpret/UNDERSTAND everything that I have learned
#3. To do as much good w/ what I've LEARNED/UNDERSTOOD as possible

#4. To sit back and watch my seeds blossom

Originally posted by rjmelter
I like deep questions such as yours OP.

My lifes purpose?

I enjoy learning, thus why I come to ATS to peruse through random topics. But in the midst, I feel that learning as much as possible, eventually, will be for a much more important purpose. an example

I've learned a lot about cars, I enjoy fixing them and knowing about each and every piece of a vehicle. So when someone on the side of road looks like they could use a hand I will stop and help them w/ the knowledge I've learned and that knoweldge along with the positive/friendly spiritual energy... inspires something inside of tha tperson to do something good. The same goes w/ computers... I've helped many w/ computer issues at no charge and helped them to more fluently use them.

so...

#1. To Learn as much as possible
#2. To Interpret/UNDERSTAND everything that I have learned
#3. To do as much good w/ what I've LEARNED/UNDERSTOOD as possible

#4. To sit back and watch my seeds blossom

Thank you Rjmelter

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