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HarveyWalbanger
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: SHiZNO]
#1616945 - 06/07/03 04:21 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I plan to leave behind the biggest san pedro garden.....
and oddly enough I feel bad for all the pounds of food I eat in a day, I havent done anything to make up for it, yet....
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ToughChoice
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: HarveyWalbanger]
#1616960 - 06/07/03 04:33 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I live for my girlfriend and our dream to have a beautiful child. I want to bring more life into this earth and enjoy every minute of everyday with her and our child. I dont think about what i live for on a daily basis but how i am going to live the next minute of my life.
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questforall
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: SHiZNO]
#1617299 - 06/07/03 09:12 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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My friend, thats a very good thing to discuss. I can see why people would want to kill them selves, and why they see no point in living life. To cut through the crap, the thing that keeps me going is the thought and desire to know Life, to merge with God, Love or whatever we call in words. I know its possible, I have had glimpses of the inner infinite world, and I know I can't die, I can not not-exist, so this is the only thing that I desire and live for. I want to know the Almighty Lord, I want to be with HIm/Her/It and non of the above, I want to have eternal devotion to the Eternal and All Powerful One and Only. In my opinion everything else, any other desire leads to further suffering and is a waste. I dont like to live in ignorance anymore. I dont like to suffer in the walls of the limited mind. Here is something that encouraged me to live today.
"In a human being is such a love, a pain, an itch, a desire that, even if he were to possess a hundred thousand worlds, he would not rest or find peace. People work variously at all sorts of callings, crafts, and professions, and they learn astrology and medicine, and so forth, but they are not at peace because what they are seeking cannot be found. The beloved is called dilaram because the heart finds peace through the beloved. How then can it find peace through anything else?' (Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin
and this
"Now some men have followed their highest intelligence that they have become totally angelic and pure light. These are prophets and saints who are free of fear and hope, the persons on whom no fear shall come, and who shall not be grieved [10:62]. There are others whose intellects have been so overcome by their lust that they have become totally bestial. Still others remain in the struggle. They are the group within whom a certain agony or anguish is manifested and who are not contented with their lives. They are the faithful. The saints stand waiting to bring them to their own station and make them like themselves. The devils also lie in wait to pull them down to their level and the lowest depth." Fihi ma Fihi #17 Rumi
Try not to understand the work of the pure saints by comparing them with yourself ... By such comparisons all the world's inhabitants have gone astray... They hold themselves up as equal to the prophets, imagining that the saints are just like themselves. They say, "Look: We are human and they are human, both of us must eat and sleep." Out of blindness they do not know that between them is an infinite difference... This person eats food and gives out filth; the other also eats, but his food is transformed entirely into the Light of God. This one eats and gives birth to avarice and envy; the other eats and gives birth only to love for the One. (The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 144)
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go what is in between, transcending the things of time. With your mind free in every direction, you will not return to birth and aging. (Buddha)
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving. (Buddha)
I hope some will resonate with these words. I wish everyone the best of best. Please seek that fullfilment which is eternal, even if it makes you suffer more then being stuck in you comfort zone. Peace to you all.
-------------------- Please look within. Try. Try more.
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11polakie11
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: questforall]
#1618316 - 06/08/03 12:20 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I love for this moment right now
(thanks for the data questforall - hit home again, thanks)
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solidox
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: SHiZNO]
#1618781 - 06/08/03 04:31 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I live because there are some more things I have to know about live an being alive. And because life can be enjoyable through itself. WHAT exactly makes life enjoyable is different for each of us. For me it's having the money to buy the camera that I want, go endlessly around the world seeing new things, expanding my mind, surround myself with all the beautiful/interesting things I want, reach that technical know-how that will enable me to express "things", and if I find a nice girl that can be with me through life, I cannot personally ask for more. I would die a happy 45'er (no more I hope). So NOW, I am waiting for this. If by 30 I'm not there, my brains on the wall.
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MetaShroom
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: solidox]
#1618818 - 06/08/03 04:49 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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for the ongoing experience of now, to absorb knowledege and for the possibilites of tomorrow.
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Asante
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: SHiZNO]
#1619778 - 06/09/03 02:09 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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My purpose in the Universe is to do my part. I cannot stray from this so this is all OK.
On a spiritual/mental level I exsist to experience It All, to get rapturous with Cosmic Joy and the wonder of Discovery.
My body just wants to get laid, I guess that's my DNA speaking.
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lucid
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: Asante]
#1619831 - 06/09/03 02:34 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've found NO purpose to my existance... I'm being honest here. I've tried for some time to make up reasons, but the fact, faced head on, is that I have absolutely NO real reason to live. I'm in constant pain (Drug induced panic and depression), and I rarely have moments of minimal peace. I'm ambivilant distrought and confused, but I'm hoping that perhaps someday I'll develop to a point where I will no longer need a purpose to live. I will simply live and accept what life brings me. I think part of the problem is the thinking minds obsession with purpose. Goal in sight we charge forth. But life has no goal, it's the journey that's important, it's the charging forth that should be worthwhile...
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kangoo
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Re: What do you live for? (SERIOUS PLEASE) [Re: lucid]
#1620084 - 06/09/03 05:30 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I live for life, and I love it, at least most the time.
The three most important aspects of my life is: Being healthy, Friends, Family.
Just look at the nature, the trees swaying in the breez, look at the gourgous girls, look at cool movies, eat great food, listen to funky mjusikk, dance, live, play, think about the endless possibilities. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!!! (almost)
Peace out! Have jolly good life, to all of you! And yeah don't do drugZ...
-------------------- Divine moments of truth occurs when watching lucy in the sky with diamonds!
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