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Purpose of Life

Article Summary by: Cindrella    

Original Author: Cindrella
Why were you born? Is there a reason-a meaning-for your life? Is your existence part of a divine plan?Was mankind placed
on earth by an all-wise Creator as part of a great Purpose-a MASTER PLAN? Knowing the answer is supremely important!Think for a moment. What could be more important to understand than the purpose for your life?Most people live their entire lives without a clue as to why they are here. They drift aimlessly, unconcerned about the answers to life’s greatest questions-why life and why death? Others enjoy debating the meaning of life, but never arrive at the correct answers. Many conclude that mankind is little more than a product of evolution-blind, dumb luck!Richard Leider wisely quoted "We are born purpose-seeking creatures. Purpose is necessary for our very health and survival. If you doubt this, check out the rates of illness and death when people lose or give up their sense of purpose."Purpose of life is knowing and realising what needs to be done.When a person shifts his focus from "what I would really LIKE to do with my life," to "what needs doing now?" ,then his life becomes meanungful. Purpose gives meaning to our lives. Consider the people you know -- friends, family, acquaintances, and even people you’ve met only briefly. Who seems truly alive to you? Who inspires you? To whom do you go when your batteries need recharging? Are the people you admire, those with high goals set in their minds.The things that stick in one’s mind as the deep and wonderful expressions of one’s life, are counterintuitively usually those things that go against this notion of convenience, of comfort, of this centrality of our own importance.This the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.Ultimately , man should not ask what the meaning of his life is.Rather, he must recognise that it is he who is asked.Each man is questioned by life...To life he can only respond by being responsible.
Published: March 29, 2006
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  1. 0 Ratings Thursday, March 30, 2006
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    ankit

    Life's Existence

    I think life is there to make people think of something which can make others happy... The creator while making life wud never have thought that life today would become so selfish that people would stop loving their own brothers and sisters. Life have no meaning itself, unless we give a meaning to it. Well, that is my personal opinion, so dont take it as a comment to act upon.

  2. 0 Ratings Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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    Ranbir

    for little sister

    well i really wonder this little sister of mine is thinking on her own and has this purity of thought .. well u need to learn and read few books likes of ayn rand's atlas shrugged and for new intellectual ..u will love them.

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