Living Simple: Why Are We Here?

i agree with you Bill absolutely that the our purpose here is to Love...to remove love in our life is like removing our soul in our body, desolate, aimless...

Billy, very interesting discussion on very purpose or motive, I believe never fixed any motive or purpose for his best creation, I feel of you want to enjoy his creation divide your life into small small sections, keep enjoying every bit of it, make your day, by enjoying every moment, it could be cooking, gardening, meeting, playing etc, etc, and ultimately you shall emerge as a true winner of a satisfied life. somehow your topic make my day, thanks

This is a really insightful topic, because it talks about something that everyone knows but never talks about. We all know this truth deep down, but we tend to forget it, either because we want to, or simply in the business of each day. But you bring us back into perspective, whether we believe in the totality of God's love as the over-arching purpose for His design, or not.

Wow what a topic!!!??? Nice thoughts too.. Love others... Always stay in warm touch. From the farthest by knowing each other. Great. Useful hub...

Sir William.( that's what I can call you.. nothing else is coming to mind).. What a great article this is about life and purpose.

Your thoughts radiate sparks and vibrations which set the mind of mere readers like me thinking and questioning our existence... in all moral, material and abstract references...

Thank you so much for this masterpiece

i agree. Our purpose is to love and to be there for each other. There are many kinds of love and the only true and real is the kind of Love with no selfishness attached to it.

beautiful message, Mr. Bill.

Seriously, you don't look a year older than 55 and you say you have spent 63 years on this planet? wow!

Being humane is our prime duty and should be our purpose in life. Now, how we define being humane is dependent on each individual...cheers!

Hello...Interesting point you have come up with. Enjoyed reading it.

Billy I have seen your profile. You are having a great knowledge and I am sure you will find theory I have mentioned in my comment very useful.

This is a wonderful and a very meaningful question. For many years I had been wondering what is the purpose of my birth,

Is it just education , play , love , hate , or is is just about making a family , raising the kids or is it just about making money. In real terms I always wanted to know whats the real purpose of my birth. And today I feel happy to share with all of you that

I know exactly Why I am born. Infact not only me , but now I know why any human being is born and the answer to this question is very well explained in Jainism which says that the ultimate goal of a soul is salvation / Liberation from the worldly attachments.

We are born as a human being so that we can work on the purification of our soul which is the only way of liberation from the transmigratory cycle of birth and death.

The karma theory explains very well the effect of our emotions on our soul and and our future.

Although its extremely difficult for everyone to attain salvation but we can make effort for the purifcation of our soul to the maximum possible extent. This theory of purification is very explained in a subject "Gunasthanak" in Jainism . It is a 14 steps ladder which takes a soul to the highest level of purity. These 14 steps are 14 stages of soul's elevation.

One useful source of info i know is http://jainsquare.com/2011/05/25/14-level-of-gunas...

I am sure it will be an eyeopener for many.

The author has mentioned that according to him the the purpose of our birth is Love , but that is also an emotion , which apparently feels goods , but in actual it increases our attachment which never lets us get free from the bondage.

I have expressed my own belief and if someone doesn't agree with my belief , he can ignore my view :)

Beautifully written and thought provoking. I would say our purpose is to love and be loved, and to improve another's experience while on earth.

I like that, Bill. Loving and caring and perhaps letting life show you its purpose FOR you. I need to sit back, laugh, dance and eat tacos. :D

Great hub Bill :) Mind-boggling indeed that reinstated the main Purpose of Life, and that is LOVE. Love which was the main reason God created Heaven and Earth, Man and Woman. It was love shared why we are brought to this life by our parents, and how we brought into this world our own children and the next generations to come to add up to over 7 Billion of us human and still counting. And anything that we do or anyone that does in contrast thus fail in bringing justice to the purpose of the gift of LIFE that we have been blessed. Thanks for sharing. xx

I have enjoyed this article, all encouraging and thoughtful words.

I like to believe that my pupose in life each day is to add to the enjoyment and assistance of others in which ever form that requires.

Have a nice and purposeful day!

We think a lot alike Billybuc. I agree that at the end of the day, our real purpose is to love and help one another. No matter what you believe in or don't believe in, this is a good way to live. Vote up!

Thank you Bill. I have had a good Mother's Day. The sun is shining and the grass is getting greener. Enjoy your Sunday! :)

Very inspiring! I often wonder what the purpose of life is and I always find a solution when I look at my family.

Bill, you hit a home run with this one. Couldn't agree with you more. We ALL need purpose in our lives. If there were more love and compassion in this world it would be a better place for everyone. It certainly is a mad, mad world out there. Great job, voting up, sharing,etc....

Living a life justified by greed, self gratification and power does not make a whole lot of sense, and yet this is exactly what is promoted world wide through the media and advertising for one reason only - becasue there is money to be made!! I am with you 100% Bill, there has to be more to our lives' purpose. I love your words here and for me your answer is the only one. Our friend Curaid sums this up prefectly in his comment above - "The food is Love". Awesome and very relevant hub. Thank you for writing this. My votes and best wishes to you from Annie.

This hub is very interesting. There must be a reason to why everything happens in life. I have noticed that my experiences in life guide me to help people and be kind to everyone around me. I haven't chosen what to do in life. It seems like many things have chosen me instead. What I have learned so far is that if you give love, you get much more in return. Maybe that's the purpose for me - to help people, which gives me satisfaction in life. Thank you for writing this hub. Nobody could have done it better than you, Bill.

Well said Bill! It is all about peaceful coexistence. Nothing more, since it encompasses a range of socially acceptable thinking and behaviour and nothing less will do if have to distinguish ourselves from our cavesman mentality when might was right.

Any other purpose I'm not aware of neither has anyone been able to satisfy my curiosity about this question. Till we find an answer, can't we all live a life of caring and sharing?

Voted all the way up and across.

Isn't it amazing that of the two quantifiable and measurable emotions by EEG (love and fear)- that love has the more powerful wavelength? Thanks for the positive message!

Purpose? I have NO IDEA what in the freaking world my purpose is. Sometimes I think it's to dance and smell the flowers...but then I get pollen up my nose and proceed to have an allergic attack. Then I go for a long bike ride...but then I'll hit a tree. I've tried that teaching thing, and I got eaten alive. Then I wish I could live 900 years because there are SO MANY cool things in this life to try. I want to try storytelling and painting murals and create beautiful gardens and organize peace rallies and earth day rallies and I want to get better at playing guitar and travel and meditating and writing and making a difference and living life to the fullest. On the one hand, I suppose I'm supposed to fit it all in 100 years. But then I think I need to focus. How in the world do you focus when there are so MANY cool things to do in this life? And to say nothing of "purpose". Hehhe. I guess I'll just keep singing, laughing and dancing and trying out whatever and hopefully my "purpose" will sound in my ears like a dolphin in the sound. Your hubs always make my mind go crazy with wonderful thoughts...that's why I like reading them so much. :)

purpose is to experience everything inbetween living and death. emotion feeling etc. do what you enjoy!! feel even pain anger vengence!!

Billybuc, I LOVE this hub, you made some excellent points, then tied it all together with one word: LOVE. You are SO right...We are here to Love. Love DOES make the world go round, and I truly believe LOVE can overcome evil. I Corinthians 13: "Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is LOVE." Voted up, useful and beautiful. THANK YOU from one of your biggest fans, blessings, Sparklea :)

Nice written hub. You have great philosophy about life and I truly believe that we have a purpose, why we are here. Thanks for writing on this subject. Enjoyed. Voted up!

This is an excellent hub! I am a firm believer that we are all born with a purpose and the drive to fullfill a purpose, but sadly, not everyone takes the initiative to aspire to their own. I don't think we are here as a biological accident and the human mind is not equipped to understand our design and purpose. Great thoughts here!

A very thought provoking hub Bill. We all have our core belief system, but no matter what that is, we must believe that we are here to help one another..Thank you for sharing..Cheers

Interesting hub. This is a question I have been asking since the age of 5 and I still don't have the answer. Although love is something that humanity has in common but so is hate and jealously common features of humanity.

Thanks for sharing your views.

Oh, I like the way you tackled this subject--a common sense approach. I like the simplicity of this article. It does not make a person feel that he/she has to go through an act of congress to find his/her purpose in life. It was straight and to the point, and, most of all, anyone should be able to appreciate it without hangups and conflicts about beliefs, religion, etc. Clever.

"Our greatest attribute is not our ability to use tools nor is it our ability to reach the moon and beyond. Our defining characteristic as humans is our ability to love and act on that love. To be guided by any other purpose than love is to revert back to the times when we crawled out of a cave and beat each other over the head with clubs."

This is powerful. When I think about all of the violence in this world, people beating "each other over the head with clubs," I know that the problem is the lack of love.

A few years ago I read THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE by Rick Warren. It gave me very satisfying answers to questions I had about my purpose. Many times we think that our purpose entails some dramatic description of a special duty that we have not yet discovered. We may learn that we are already fulfilliing our purpose(s), although sometimes our wheels need a little more oil.

Thanks for sharing such a masterpiece. I will share, too. I voted up, interesting, useful, and awesome. It should be ranked among the best of hubs.

When i first saw this hub, i thought it would tow the stomach-boiling orthodox line of How god put us here to do good and be shipped off to heaven, or do bad and be roasted forever in hell... Courtsey of the same loving God.

But now, having read this, i must say it made me use my thinking cap once again which was becoming dusty (thanks to the fundamentalists around)

wonderful hub, pa! The best i've read all week. Voted up and interesting and wait... I think i'll start following you too

Billy

I am sure we are all born for a purpose; I just still haven't found mine. I'll keep looking though. I do very much believe that there is a life after this one and we have many lessons in this life we are supposed to learn. I deeply believe that what you don't learn in this life will in some way effect the life after. You have to learn to love yourself first before you can love others. If you live your life treating others as you wish to be treated; that is a form of love. If you can find peace in your soul and do your best to live life with compassion, empathy and love...that is what you will find in the next life. If you live your life filled with hate, selfishness and greed as well as other negative emotions...that is what you will then find in the next life. I believe there is a master creator, God, who did create everything. This life is just a short blip in the timeline until we move on but it does have a direct relevance as to life after death.

Billybuc! All I can say is thank you. Thank you.

I agree with what you said about ethics being dependent upon culture. As an anthropology major, I'm continuing to learn that culture defines so much of who we are that it is very difficult to see what brings us together. But you are right, love does seem to be one thing that all humanity has in common.

What a powerful hub this is Bill. I'm in a customer service related field; and, I'm also an amateur philologist. I can tell an individual's attitude, more on how he/she sounds than on what they are actually saying. You're so correct in saying that people waste their time in trivial things and ultimately forgot the real important things in life.

Voted up and useful

John

Your comment that we are here to love is a simple yet true statement. Sending positivity your way my friend.

Love your choice of song, Bill! I believe we have all been given a gift; something we do better than anyone else. It is that which we are meant to share in order to bring people together so we may live in peace and love. Our life experiences should help strengthen our gifts, if we are willing to see and not judge, complain or make excuses. All of our gifts were given in love and I think if we expound on those gifts and share with our fellow man, we indeed will "try to love one another right now"!

Can't wait to check out your photos. I've never been to Mt. Ranier.

You and Bev enjoy your weekend, my friend. A break well deserved, to be sure!

There are questions and then there are QUESTIONS! Jeesh!

All I can do is repeat to you what I was told when I was about 10 years old.

My Dad told me that my sister wished for a baby sister on her 4th birthday as she blew out the candles.

And, so that's why I'm here.

I agree with you 100%. If everyone on earth just learnt love the world would be a much better place. Love yourself. Love your family and friends. Love your plants and nature. Love animals. Love life. Surely, this can't be so hard. I read 'Conversations with God' a few weeks ago. That book has changed a lot about the way I see things and made me think a lot about what my purpose in life is. We aren't here to simply exist - we are here to make things better, and become better ourselves. Thanks for the great hub - I loved it :)

Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love. Beautiful hub! Thank you for the wonderful time spent pondering under the tree and the lemonade :) Voted way up!!

Yes, love, that's it, and in doing so glorifying Him (at least for me!) Thanks billybuc,(I am so thrilled you came to that conclusion!) Let's keep spreading that love around, because what else is there to do that is more important? Not a thing. In His always, Faith Reaper

I think that the purpose of our existence is to live to the fullest in a best possible way that will contribute towards our own personal satisfaction and fulfilment, at the same time nourishing and touching the lives of others, those we care about and love, as well as respecting the simplest principles of mother nature, that being an ability to act in accordance with our highest ideals and reaching out to make the world a better place. If everyone lived their life to their best abilities with emphasis on spreading love, happiness and respect for one another, than our world would be a paradise. Lovely hub Bill, take care :-)

I think a lack of purpose and selfish traits often turn out to be factors in cases of crimes and other negative happenings in our society. The problem is many of the people who are set in these ways will not open their mind to changing and some become angry or violent at the prospect of changing. I enjoyed reading this hub.

lol, thank you my soggy friend! :) Hey, aren't you supposed to be soaking up the gorgeous sights at Mt. Rainer?! :) I was expecting a photo essay of yours and Bev's trip. :)

Thanks Bill! Come up and visit me! It's a good day for a picnic! That's our purpose today!

A very refreshing hub; makes you stop and reflect on things without being preaching. Nicely done. I wish I could be profound like so many of your worldly and esteemed peers, but I'm just a simple Alaskan girl that enjoys reading your hubs and exploring the doors to other places that they open. :o)

Hey BillyBoy! The duck's here.. dancing on your keys! What you say is right, we have to step up to the plate - get so many things straightened out and help the hungry and homeless where ever we are, wherever they are! Thanks Bill!

Beautifully written hub, Billy. This is a question I have thought about for many years. A friend of my Dad's once told me to remember that every single thing we say or do is permanent and affects everything else. That makes all of us related, and it makes all of us related to mother earth as well. If we follow your thoughts, we prosper. If we don't, we ruin everything. Looking at the way things are in today's world, I'd say we're not doing a very good job of it.

I enjoyed reading your great hub. This is an excellent topic. Voted UP and all.

Very interesting Hub that is certainly hard to bring down to a basic level. However that may be, though, I do agree with Teaches that it is ethics. One possible consideration would be to make the best out of the life that is offered to you; another consideration would be defend your kin with the life threatens you with, so on and so forth. Billybuc, would you agree that, perhaps, we can find a number of basic ethics behind what different people to consider "their purpose"? If there is such, is there any research upon it? Certainly understanding the basics of purpose will help life as a whole.