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• “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness,” he said, before adding, “Life is bliss and suffering is not necessary.”
• Is there some hidden purpose to life, a secret design, a meaningful logic, a goal to reach? Why are we here? Where do we come from and where do we go after we leave? Are we each on our own path with our own concerns and our own individual and independent fate? For what should we be striving? Is it health, happiness, making money, being better than ...
• Everyone ends up making assumptions or staunchly subscribes to beliefs about many of them, whether on a clearly conscious level or not! Those beliefs or convictions become our underlying worldview, influencing all that we do. They shape our lives as foundations of our thinking, feeling, and behaving.
• if we were not conscious beings, none of this would matter. We would be acting, behaving, and reacting instinctively, automatically, and robotically. Without consciousness, there is no questioning, no choice, no freedom, no responsibility. There would be neither dreams, feelings, hopes, desires, pain, nor joy.
• The study in physics of the smallest particles or constituents of matter revealed a quantum level that has randomness, uncertainty, and non-locality. The ultimate constituents of matter are not localized in time and space. On the small quantum scales, the classical concepts of matter, energy, time, and space do not hold. The source of matter is thu...