Quotes About Purpose

Oh, what have I to do with time?

That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

You must get your living by loving.

El viaje menos complicado del mejor barco velero, está compuesto de un conjunto de zigzags. Pero si miras la línea de su trayectoria desde una distancia lo suficientemente lejana, notarás que, en general, siempre se ha mantenido en la dirección dominante del destino. Tu acción genuina se explicará por sí misma, y explicará tus otras acciones genuinas.

What I must do is all that concerns me

that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

The optimum strategy is to act as if we have free choice and to choose always that which we feel is most in harmony with the way of things.

you do what you do because that's what the harmony of the universe requires. If I am a potter I make pots

NO ACCIDENTS If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you would see You Are A Totally Determined Being

Gurdjieff used to say, "If you can serve a cup of tea properly, you can do anything." That is, if you are able to perform any act in a true karma-yogic fashion, it's because you're acting from a place where you're free of attachments and not busy being the actor—and being in that place will shape every act you do.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

The more conscious that a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

It is a waste of your precious time on earth to do everything you do—personally and professionally—and not leave something behind that makes the world a better place.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.

Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.