The function is what a thing does. The purpose is why it does it. The function of life is to feel. Then the why is up to you. You can feel whatever you want; you cannot avoid this- however, you can choose the feeling.
Feelings are energy. Energy is a magnet for life energy.
How you feel about anything is a factor in the way you experience life (sometimes called perception).
Everything you do, you do for feelings, either to achieve a certain feeling or to avoid certain feelings. Children (you, maybe) are born innocent, and vulnerable to abusive adults around them.
Parents manipulate children to meet their own unresolved needs and children idealize their parents.
No rejection ever goes unavenged.
For example- a woman despises her father for whatever reason. She will seek to unburden herself by humiliating her son. The son grows up idealizing his mother – he then seeks revenge on other women
Break the cycle.
It is still pervasive.
Look around.
Forgiveness is a tool. Feelings are like the soul.
We can handle any feelings we want to simply by being them.
We have blocked our feelings because we are afraid of what we judge as ‘bad’.
A Master channels the feeling he/she wants to have and then, has that feeling.
Salvation is forgiveness.
Your part is to be happy.
You give but to yourself.
Hi Jonathon…you are correct, certainly about creating yourself. I am currently reading a book about soul contracts, i.e., where/when we have decided what our lives will be like. It can be confusing at best, however, if we all remember that your/our God (Buddha, Christian, Islam, Hinduism, etc) is at the top of this scenario and continue to be clear on all things.
Many thanks,
Joanne Victoria
Thank you, Joanne, for a very thought provoking post. I enjoyed reading it and triggered some of my own thoughts.
“Feelings are energy. Energy is a magnet for life energy”.. how very true, but then these ‘feelings’ are influenced by a myriad of external factors, right from the time one is born.
However, I believe that the basic ‘function’ of life is to LIVE, and not merely to exist.
I believe the purpose of life, the how’s, the why’s, the wherefores etc can be expanded to include the value of life we each create for ourselves. In the end, it is the how we lived our lives will matter
Marie Curie: The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
George Bernard Shaw: Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Biblically, it is up to us – devoting ourselves to God in life is the way to live an honest and happy life. All the choices we make in our life should be made for His honor.
William James: The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Thanks, Dennis Pitocco! I sure appreciate the reprint of this article!