On Purpose

                                  On Purpose

Just like money, life is, properly speaking, a means to an end, not an end in itself.  Taken in and for itself only, it is a merry-go-round, going nowhere really.  Get off it, and start the climb up the spiral stairway to the heavens.  You will be glad you did.  And so will your Creator Source, and your fellow souls on The Path - the Journey from Unity and back; qualitatively different, and better, for the experience.  The Purpose of life not being to make money; but to gain Self-realization.  About who you and we are, why we are here, and what we are here to do - to say, in sum: to find out what it is all about.  Not to get stuck in The Process, and dawdle along The Way.  

Oh, you can do that.  But you are defeating your, and the, Purpose, if you substitute means for ends.

That is not to say that you shouldn’t enjoy the fruits of your labors.  You earned that.  But not to get fixated on them, as the be-all and end-all of existence.  They are ephemeral.  Go for what lasts:

Your immortal soul, the richer for your experiences.

And part of that richness is the degree of your gratitude to your Creator for life with meaning. 

P.S. As to that latter point:

     I never cease to marvel at the minds of atheists, who cede so much ability to ‘evolution’, as if Nature were a marvelously intelligent Being, and yet their minds utterly reject the notion that there could be a marvelously ingenious Intelligence behind all life.

     The mind boggles.