Quotes About Purpose

Clyde had a soul that was not destined to grow up. He lacked decidedly that mental clarity and inner directing application that in so many permits them to sort out from the facts and avenues of life the particular thing or things that make for their direct advancement.

Was I the servant of a sovereign wish, Or ladle rattling in an empty dish?

The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

the purpose of a rose is to be a rose. Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.

A few years ago, I asked some children, What is the purpose of eating breakfast? One boy replied, To get energy for the day. Another said, The purpose of eating breakfast is to eat breakfast. I think the second child is more correct.

Many of us slog through life without conscious awareness or intention. We set ourselves a course and we barrel ahead, without stopping to ask whether this path is fulfilling our most important goals. That's partly because many of us believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now. We think we need to struggle now so that we will be happy in the future. So we postpone happiness and try to run into the future and attain the conditions of happiness that we don't have now.

If someone were to ask, "What's the purpose of walking meditation? What's the point? Why do you practice it?" There are several answers we can give. But for me the best answer is, "Because I like it.

If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

If you are lost in a forest at night, you can follow the North Star to find your way out. You follow the North Star, but your goal is to get back home; it's not to arrive at the North Star.

This is why, to be happy [...] we need to take some time each day to sit down, look into ourselves, and identify the kind of energy that's motivating us and where it is pushing us.

We need to stop and ask, "Can I realize my deepest aspiration if I pursue this path?" "What is really preventing me from taking the path I most deeply desire?" DEVELOPING

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house. The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.

How we deal with our daily lives is the most important question.

Life is short; it must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculations which will not be able to bring us the Truth.

If we are still seeking or pursuing something else, something more, we're not yet aimless. We're not yet free, and we're not yet our true self. Our true self is already there within us, and as soon as we can see it, we become a free person.

After the Jon Fitch fight, about being confused, the Lord's really given me clarity and shined a light on where he wants me to go, how I could answer the calling he's given me.

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.