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Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant
Someday you will realize that your soul is not about doing--it is about being. Given that life is eternal, what one does or does not do in any single lifetime is of little consequence in the long run.
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Sounds like a copout.
Buckminster Fuller once said "Live your life as an experiment". Try something new, become an example of a new way to live.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Emerson
I look at things along those lines. I guess I would say I treat my life as an artwork. The purpose I've given my self is not to reach ever higher levels of personal enlightenment, my purpose is to create things. I do my best to add to the complexity of the world. I do this with my art and through my relationships with others. It's about increasing the resolution of reality.
It is true that the years we spend on earth are a tiny fraction in terms of geological time. Once we die and return to gaia or dissapear forever or whatever you chose to believe, our efforts in life will be but a drop in the ocean. That ocean however is one of limitless beauty and detail and I'm thrilled to participate in its creation.