Purpose
Purpose as both survival-machine optimization and poetic meaning
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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
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 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 wants man to overcome, ultimately, Death 💀. Unveil the mystery of our universe or die trying.