#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