#philosophy #purpose # [[Epistemic status]] #schroedinger-uncertain # Purpose ![[DALL·E 2022-06-17 20.51.47 - The invisible and mysterious wind driving men forward, against which they are powerless, painted by Escher.png]] >Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. >~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] ![[[Psychosomatic Medicine vol. 78 iss. 2] Cohen, Randy_ Bavishi, Chirag_ Rozanski, Alan - Purpose in Life and Its Relationship to All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events (2016) [10.1097_psy.0000000000000274] - libgen.li.pdf]] >Health frees your body. >Wealth frees your time. >Purpose frees your spirit. >Wisdom frees your mind. >You must consider whether your nature is more suited to **practical activity or to quiet study and reflection**, and incline in the direction your natural faculty and disposition take you. ~ [[Seneca]] >All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. ~ [[Thoreau]] ## [[Via Negativa|Less is more]], do not seek **purpose** >Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] >The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting, he is present, and can welcome all things. ~ [[Lao Tze]] ## What is the **purpose** of life? [[There are two answers to this question, as to all questions: the poet's and the scholar's. Which one do you want first?]] ### Scholar’s **purpose** of life Man is a survival machine built by the [[Genome|genome]] in order to carry it. >Men are like clouds. They are driven forward by a mysterious and invisible wind against which they are powerless. They think they are in control and laugh at the weakness of the clouds, but their wind is a thousand times stronger than the one blowing up there. The [[Genome|genome]] wants man to overcome, ultimately, [[Death 💀]]. Unveil the mystery of [[Our universe|our universe]] or die trying. ### Poet’s **purpose** of life #work-in-progress