I have observed that number of researchers devoted their whole life for research at the cost of their personal life. At a time of retirement some people feel why they spend their whole life for research. I feel living happy life is more important than carrier/research. Most of researcher works for society, purpose is defeated if they can not keep them-self and their family happy. It is also true that this profession demand lot of quality time. How to balance personal and professional life is one of the major challenge in the life. This is my personal view, I wants to know view of other researchers.
I would say that it is a question of balance. You have to reach a balance between professional and personal life and be happy with it. The balance you've got does not work for me and mine does not work for you. Then the point is to find where is the balance. Once you think you have got it figured out, then it changes since it is dynamic, and you have to start figuring it out again
I am too small to share my view for this:
If Einstein/any famous figure thought about the outcome of his carrier/research, what would have we got by today?
The passion and degree of happiness varies from person to person, as per Darwin's statement,"Survival of the fittest", only the best one thrives. But for that reason, one should not stay without attempting on his part, but of course, as you say, when someone feels it is not the right place to play, then they can happily go for some other game. It is all about the matter of special interest and dedication I guess. I know it is tough and challenging :)
I would say that it is a question of balance. You have to reach a balance between professional and personal life and be happy with it. The balance you've got does not work for me and mine does not work for you. Then the point is to find where is the balance. Once you think you have got it figured out, then it changes since it is dynamic, and you have to start figuring it out again
Yes, I agree. Life is a kind of art how to use our limited time. I think, no researcher shouldn t forget to spirituality of our life ...
@Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
Your exposition of the problem is highly appreciated. Certainly it is very important aspect of our life. Not only researchers and scholars, but also those in jobs (Corporate Sector) and politicians are facing this problem. However, my humble suggestion is that the basic question, "What is aim of life?" is to be rephrased as "What is important in life?" as there is another thread in another forum whereby exactly your question is asked with using the word "purpose" instead of "aim". To me aim or purpose of life is an aspect worthy of philosophical discourse than the pragmatic solutions of balancing different spheres of life, which one may suggest after going through explanation of the problem.
Suprisingly, it is mainly men who replied to this question. I am a woman, I've been in research labs for 12 years and from what I see around me, Gajendra is right. A lot of women sacrifice a lot and the lab becomes their life, their family. By the time they reach the end of their PhD or during their post-doc, they are miserable. Their worry is not to spend more time with the family, it is more, will we get a family and if you have a family, you know you might not be competitve enough to suceed in a research career. Actually research is not a career, it is a vocation and you should invest yourself completely in it. Any distraction can impair on your success. To keep the balance is difficult. Resolving a signaling pathway to better understand the mechanism of a pathology is rewarding, raising a boy or a girl and giving them all they need to be part of this world and so they can have a positive impact in this world is also rewarding.
@Roman Maltsev
I really not only appreciate your views and share them to a great extent. To me whether ethics, science or education as a whole is aimed at “[decreasing] the amount of suffering in universe and make it [life] more happy.” and making humans to become a good human being. But, sometimes I think, are not we blinded to the fact that in this process every success of us not only makes our civilisation more complex but also amount of work carried out by an individual is increased manifold. Sometimes I wonder, if civilised humans have not reached to uncivilised humans, has the life latter not been simple, easygoing and conflict free?
It is not that I am against progress, development and scientific achievements. But, what we are experiencing is exactly what you have pointed out in the opening sentence of your response, “Eat each other and compete according to Darwin theory?”
This is a question that I would never state. Men are born without any instruction manual, this is why it is not clear what is the aim of life. However, we are born with a lot of capabilities. It is each man who must build an aim for his life according to his capabilities. If you do not discover your aim, probably you life becomes a useless thing.
By contrast, if you are able to find some utility for your capabilities you can build the adequate aim for your life, which need not coincide with the aim of others.
As an illustration consider a man who has never seen a computer and finds one. If he is not able of discovering what could be this aim, the computer is a useless thing in his hands. By contrast, if he is able to discover the computer utility, the same computer becomes a very useful tool. In other words life can be either useful or useless depending of who is its owner.
In any case, if you do not find an aim for your life, others can create an aim for you in their own profit.
Personally my aim in life is to live with content. As a Muslim, our aim in/of life is to worship God. For me that is the true meaning of content.
@Issam Sinjib , interesting answer, please have a look on following question "What is relation between science and religion"
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_relation_between_science_and_religion
Gajendra
Thank you for pointing out this new thread to me. I will be shortly making a reply on the relationship between science and religion.
Dear Raghava, Each of us love to create something, its like a drug addiction. some people love their children because its his/her best creation, some people love jobs, research or travel somewhere etc for the similar reason. but when we are unable to perform our job properly, according to our subconscious mind then we feel upset. suppose, A family man unable to educate his children with lots of money investment, which was his dream but after his failure he think it will be better to invest money in bank than for education. Raghava, basically we have lots of questions in our mysterious life but most of them have not any answer, If you believe in the God then concept of the God start from your limitation of thought. There is no hell without this earth, because each second you have to struggle to live a life here.
Dear Researchers,
I am very young to answer this but I will try my best to convey my message. Researchers likes with their goals than their family life, there spend much time in keeping their effort in scientific research. The aim of life is the meaning of life.
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it. But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men--in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with
whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of relations, family and sympathy.
As Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," is my best quotation inspired me. I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them. This applies most of all to the great artist, but also in a lesser degree to the scientist. To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, art of medicine, the steam engine--each was discovered by one man.
Finally, I would like to say that our work should be a example, inspirational and guide to future generations. SEARCH of knowledge is difficult than RE-SEARCH of Knowledge.
Please read this paper "Principles of Research" by Albert Einstein in 1918.
Thanking you
Akshaya Srikanth
To do good to others and contribute something for the benefit of humanity.
Every human life is a mission. The mission of everybody is to do the best for our societies and praise the Creator
I think the people who spend most of their time for the professional part, believe that this is the aim of life.and enjoy it
but people who follow other activity and entertainments for the personal part ,believe that the worst thing is to devote whole of life to forexample research or work
but i believe there are so many things to learn in the life without studing or s,th like that
thank u for excelent discussion
As per my concern from the child hood every person has one aim to be something and be happy rest of the life, most of the people do the same they take higher education and do job in any company or start their own busyness. If you see they also face the same problem as a researcher faces. But the difference is non researcher has to think about his own profit or about his company only and researcher just wants to achieve a status in which world should remember him. In such a case each people having the same problem just formats are different. This just how you see. Many people in research also give time to their family by adjusting their work in same way. So it is just a matter of time adjustment and that depends upon you what you want to achieve and how you going to do this.
When somebody states a question like this, everyone uses to build some answer worthy of being etched in stone. But, sincerely I think that the true aim is to drink a cold beer from time to time or something like.
Hi all,
Interesting question and interesting discussion with a lot of ideas and comments. I am from those who wants to do everything - research, family, teaching, projects etc... I admit that its really a nightmare sometimes, but from my perspective it's worth. Not only because you find new meanings of what you do, but because you have new perspectives for the problems, you look at the same problems from different point of view.
I got one interesting idea when sitting for the first time in a hospital with my 3-years old girl (you can imagine the stress), and this idea became a journal publication... Research is not about theory, about universe, and about unrecognizable issues. In fact, sorry to say, but we don't know anything... The only instrument we have is just our curiosity and our ability to ask questions, even stupid question as: why we are doing all this????
And my answer for me is - I want to change (or, better, to improve?) the world..., making it better for our children.... If I was an artist, I would make it in another way - singing a song or performing in a movie. If I was an employee, or an owner of a company, I would make it in another way - by making the best service? or the best product? If you take a good coffee in the morning all your day could be wonderful, and you can be inspired to make some good things. So even a coffee-maker can change the day of a 100 persons, let say, and this way can improve the world...
What is the meaning of the life? To keep wondering, to keep smiling and to think about the others, not just about ourselves, our career or our research index and high performance...
My best regards,
Albena
As mentioned by many peers here..it is a matter of making a balance..we have to find balance within our priorities and definitely everyone can do this provided if he/she can pay more attention. Quite often we pay more attention to what others think about ourselves and we try to follow what most people do, though it is against to our inner urge wherein we may not enjoy what we are doing. We need courage, dedication, hard-work and patience to do what we feel right to us and our dependents and to the society at large..
What a difficult question!. I arrive late to this question. I thought about that a lot of times and I found different answers. I have read your answers and all of them are reasonable and valid. But actually I have no idea. It should be different aims for different persons at different times in different places. To me, science has been important, life and happiness have been extremely important, but currently I tend to use scarcely words such as "extremely impostant". Obviously, I do know and I did not found "the aim of life".
Nasser,
Your response must be appreciated. But, family is also important part of life. May be my focus is narrower, but without a tension free life and without ideal children (only possible if parents pay attention to them) to follow, one is not able to substantially contribute to humanity. Work and family responsibilities are to be balanced at least in the Eastern tradition. It is because humanity is not some thing imposed from outside, the next generation of ours after us will make it. If we leave a good human beings with humanitarian value system to make world livable for themselves and others, it per se would be a great gift to humanity.
This is exactly why I chose not to enter academia after I graduated with a Masters in Biology and was on track to go for a PhD. I love science and exploring the natural world has always been the focus of my life, ever since I was a child. But sacrificing EVERYTHING life has to offer only because an artificially imposed culture of competition was not an option for me. I love learning about the world, but not every single minute of every hour of every day. So I became a science writer instead, with a 9-5 job. I can do whatever I want every single weekend and at night. It's funny in a way because even though I'm not a real scientist, I get to travel on the weekends and explore the landscape where I live - in the American Southwest. I visit National Parks, I camp and hike in the backcountry, and I take field guides with me, and my camera. But most of the time, I just observe. I feel I learn new things about the world every day. Had I become an academic researcher, most of my weekends would be spent in the lab, while the natural world would happen outside without me. Plus, I really enjoy other things beside science, for example playing music and underwater photography. I'm pretty sure I would not have had the time or the money to pursue those things had I stayed in academia.
Dear Nitin, this is not true that their are number of ways for survival. A large number of people are doing research as they have no other options. Most of student dream to become medical doctor or engineer, failure to achieve goal some time force to do PhD.
@Gajendra
These are not exceptional cases. An overwhelming majority of PhD students belong to this category. The research is their refuge not passion.
It is a two-edged sword, really, and one that I'm still struggling with. Many, many people who know me and my professors back in university told me I would make a great scientist, and my friends admire my curiosity and inquisitive personality and my passion for understanding the natural world. I sometimes feel I was born in the wrong century. I would have loved to be one of the early explorers, who could follow their curiosity and just observe and learn. What I see when I look at my friends who are grad students or young professors, is a relentless culture of publish or perish, grant-writing around the clock, not having time for friends, family or hobbies, and constant pressure. I am under the impression that curiosity is not nearly enough to make it as a scientist today. It takes utmost determination, a complete absence of self-doubt, unwavering discipline and self-castigation to be successful. I admire those who can do it, and I sometimes feel sad I didn't, because it's not science that kept me at a distance, it's the the way academic science is practiced these days, not to mention the incredible struggle for funding, of course.
I feel it is not you don't want to beget a girl or boy, if you are not offended I would dare to say it is you selfish self that has made you to think like that and you have acknowledged that. First, though it does not matter one child more or less but, reproducing life is not only natural but socially desirable. I am a proud father of two grown up children. I never had experience how to raise children, but I did it because in life one has to take first step in every sphere. I enjoyed every moment of their growth.
Children are not robots and none of us may become God of their children. In our language we have a word "SANSKARS* meaning thereby all good manners, virtues, and value which are transferred from parents to children not genetically but through their own behavioural patterns and treatment of children and others. If it is not then why mother's lap is called first school of a child. Children presently are not produced in factories for whom we could give handsome money to purchase, if they contain good genetic stuff etc. We have also a saying, "wali as shaitan's offspring and shaitan as wali's offspring [a saint may take birth in the house of a devil, and a devil may take birth in a saint's house]. But this conventional wisdom has never been a bar on reproduction. Because, it has both aspects: pessimism and optimism. In your case pessimism seems dominant. If you are not father you cannot discover pleasure of being a father.
Mehrdad Hassanpour
I feel guilty that I have passed some judgement on your personality, but really I did not mean any offence. It is a place for scholars and it is not necessary that two scholars think alike. Your thought with You and mine is with me. With all due respects and affection, if you need the last one.
According to me, whatever we do in life is aimed at achieving ETERNAL HAPPINESS. If you really agree with that, then we should do what we like and we should like what we do. When we are involved in research, many things like observations, results, graphs, opinions give us happiness. Similarly, personal life is something that is necessary to keep us refreshed and active. If balanced correctly, both give us happiness. As per RG scores, I am not sure how they would count in the life of a researcher but one thing is certain, RG has provided a platform to voice opinions, get methodologies, exchange research and in general keep in contact with similar research work, as simple as that!
Although the question is
"what is aim of life?"
everybody is answering to this other question:
What is the aim you are giving to your life?
Or perhaps:
What do you believe the aim of your life could be?
Though i am very young to answer this Q but i would like to answer ths Q so i would just like to tell my experience regarding work and social life......... i always try to balance both the things but quite few time i miss some of the imp.social things bz of my work and sum of the time i have to miss my work bz of social things....... so in my opinion whenever this sort of situation cums to me that i have to choose between the two then i go fr the think tht i feel is more imp. or tht i feel i will enjoy some time i enjoy my work over my personal thngs or social things and some time i prefer my family or personal thngs over my work....... i do this because i feel you should not force yrself to do any perticular thng bz if you force yrself then you will nt give your 100% to tht work and if you dnt give yr 100% to anythng then its useless............... and i feel if you devote yr life fr the research then in my opinion you will nt regret bz at the end when you will look back you will definitely will cheer and say that i have atleast giving sumthng good to this world or i have contributed to in development of this beautiful world .......
Well, i am agree with answer given by Juan-Esteban Palomar Tarancon. This question should be asked as
¨ What is aim of personal life´' or ´What is aim of professional life ¨ or ´ What is aim of religious life ´ or What do you believe the aim of your life could be?
To play.
(To play humbly with the cards get you, to acquire experience).
From a scientific point of view, the aim of life is to propagate itself.
But in reference to the original question, perhaps this problem of personal balance and equilibrium would be better addressed at a philosophical or spiritual type of forum...
...to live as many lifes as possible. Existence is one, but there are is a infinite number of lifes that one can live. Like there is one light, but broken in a prism you see hundreds of its colours. This is the infinite beauty of our existence.
Dear Roj
with all due respect, İ do not believe you answered the question. your answer is a nonresponsive answer, do you imply the purpose of life is to live many lives without a purpose
Trotz meines tiefen Zweifels der den mir zu Gebote stehenden Takt und Anstand des Ausdrucks betrifft, that sounds like Felix Krull (Thomas Mann - der Hochstapler) talking
As people say in the US, get a life, but as someone who has seen so many little kids with cancer fight for the only life they had, i would love to see you devote each andevery life you have to saving a life or touching the life of a person in need
going back to your statement, it saddens me to witness a fellow researcher who has yet to define what life means
and please remember some may be offended by your answer. for example a cancer specialist who worked very hard and prayed very hard as he witnessed how little children were fighting for the only life they had. and when they lived through times that certainly does not fit your description, it was love and being loved that kept their families intact and them alive.
Finally, you might find Der Bericht fur die Akademie (Kafka)
kind regards and very best
Dear Fatih,
I never! intended to offend anyone. If you are willing it is possible to understand my post this way. It is as worthy to fight your whole life to heal cancer as it is to love your children and focus on your family. I didn`t say a life without dedication is not worth living, as you assumed. I just say there is more to life, if you take the chances to change aspects of your life to gain new insights, your life will be richer and you will see aspects/versions of life you haven`t seen before and you will probably like it and give it on to somebody else. My answer is not unresponsive, there is no ONE answer to this question, there is only a beginning, which starts a new beginning. If there would be one answer, everybody would live like that. My approach is influenced by what is observable in life. Death is the end of all options, it is the end to everything and it is pretty unfair to insult me as a person who thinks that a child struggeling to survive is something like a joke. Please think before you judge, there is often more than ONE reading to a statement.
Sorry but your regards ain`t kind...
Thank you so very much for your kind response. What you explained in this response is not open to misinterpretation. I was very surprised by what i had read and as it turns out what you intended to say was very different from what i perceived as the message of your initial posting.
Best
fatih
Man doesn't know where he came from and where he is going. He is in this place for what reason. What good and benefit can we gain from this life fully, and what would it mean to live it fully, with the excellence of mind and spirit. I've studied Plato for many years and find that Socrates and Plato and the NeoPlatonists puzzled over this question in many ways as we can see in their dialogues. I'm reminded in the Republic "that the real lover of knowledge strives towards real being..never blunted, not content with opinions...until the soul that is akin to real being grasps and minglies with the real and begets mind and truth and would know and truly live and be nourished. What is that real being, what kind of mind and truth is he talking about? Is it knowledge of how many stops signs are in London or is it a different kind of knowledge. The role of the art of dialectic --not eristic argument but where one is able to question and answer most scientifically...where one exacts an account of the real being of each thing--in his case the real nature of justice, temperance, wisdom and courage....The art of dialectic stirs up and brings out the best in the soul to survey the best in things which really are.... The dialectic proceeds along this way demolishting hypotheses as it goes, back to the very beginning itself in order to find firm ground; the soul;s eye, which is really buried deep in a sort of barbaric bog"--the cave. My goal is to gain deeper meaning into myself, (to learn what keeps me in the barbaric bog and what draws me out), my life, the nature of reality and it's cause and to carry my insights with me into the next world whatever that may be and hopefully continue such discussions.
To play: to win, to lose, to tie, and learn, learn, learn...
Yes, play is very much a part of the queston, it is a noble game to dialogue on such questions; an artful game where there is rigor but also fun, amazed when one discovers another level of ideas but when one is wrong, there is a sense of fun when wrong because it is good to discover we held an idea that was something less than what is right or closer to truth and reason. Then one is not "bogged" down by one's false opinions, but freer to explore, wonder and yes, play to achieve but also to study where our weaknesses are or our ignorances. So, through it we learn. If play is the aim of life then what is play's goal, it's purpose and what kind of play is involved. What measure do we use to assure we are being fair in the play to the players and to ourselves?
Please forgive me if I offend anyone but I find the level of English in some of the replies so poor that it is impossible for me (as a native speaker) to follow the course of the argument! Please be aware that if you are discussing philosophical issues you really have to be able to express them in proper English, otherwise there is little point. I also would not consider joining a discussion like this if it was in French as my French is not up to standard and I would make too many mistakes! Am I the only one who is bothered by this incomprehensible English?
Hi Joy,
incomprehensible English? incomprehensible life? incomprensible thoughts? There are a lot of incomprehensible issues!
...which are made even more so by incorrect English. I am simply talking about understanding what people are saying in these posts. I did not intend it as a philosophical statement.....
Language is a barrier we all face to one degree or another. When I can't follow a post (and a fair number are by native English speakers!), I can choose to ignore it, contemplate the writer's intent, and/or query for clarity. Also, I can understand ESL several hundred times better than I can Spanish, French, German, Russian, etc. So I always feel that I'm the limited one and am being gracefully accommodated by brilliant minds that are willing to share.
Besides, it would be so very American to insist that we only talk to people who speak our own language.
@Ana
I understand that the word 'play' perhaps, has been used metaphorically to imply our activities on the playing arena called world.The goal -win or lose,grieve or rejoice one needs to keep playing and keep learning until the end.
I think the aim of life is to find oneself worthy.
But I also see three phases of life: youth seems to have the purpose to grow, become, explore; maturity seems to have the purpose to make one's mark (to master, to achieve, to reproduce); age seems to have the purpose to guide youth and caution maturity in its hubris. Of course, I've highly stylized each of these phases.
Cutting even finer is the situation in which one finds oneself. Here one might start speaking in terms of goals (which I think of as more structured in terms of discerning, planning, implementing, and evaluating). If my situation is good, my goal may be to enjoy it. How do I do that? If it is bad, my goal may be to escape it. How do I do that? If I can imagine something better, my goal may be to create or achieve it. How do I do that?
I like Ana Maria's answer, "Play!" It captures enjoyment of the struggle to prepare oneself in the present for challenges in the future. I also like Fatih's answer citing Love and Wisdom. If one can play and love and act wisely, I think one naturally finds oneself worthy.
Elwood's answer is precise and solid. Yet my observations of people who focus on propagation as their measure of worth leaves me distressed beyond accepting this answer. I suppose it is true for *zoe* (the simple fact of living), but seems near death for *bios* (the way of properly behaving as a living being).
Ana Maria,
I meant "play" the same as "jugar". I see this activity as a joyful exertion of energy that helps practice skills that may be used in the future. My baby chickens (that hatched last week) play but it is obvious to me that they are actually practicing skills necessary to find thier place in the flock and survive when they are mature. Children seem to learn very much faster and their retention is higher when the knowledge is acquired through play. The work I do in prision only seems effective when we can introduce some form of group play, otherwise, these hardened men will simply not open to the ideas we bring to them. After eight years I am still amazed that 20-to-50-year-old felons can actually come to giggle and laugh like children after group trust is established and the activity becomes childish games. THEN learning becomes possible.
Tarik,
Yes, we are attempting to create artificial life that will serve us without first understanding or respecting life in each other or that lives all around us. We don't even have a coherent philosophy of how to live our own life for the self-discipline to abide by such a philosophy. For example, I am only now collecting propositions (such as the four you list above) and attempting a thorough review of who I am in the world, how I behave in the world, and how I should act in this world.
Thank you, Tarik, for your nice words.
(Si estamos en búsqueda de la verdad, es que aún no la poseemos. (art)).
Ana Maria,
Are you saying?
"We do not yet have the art that we need to search for the truth."
(Todavía no tenemos el arte que hay que buscar la verdad.)
Ana Maria,
What model would you use to begin your journey to pursue your inquiry of who you are in the world, how you behave in the world and how you should act in the world. Good questions, but there are many models out there that present themselves as answers. Will you choose one of them to guide you or do you have a model yourself you find of interest?
Also, it's good to hear of your work with prisoners and play. Yes, in my work with adolescent prisoners play was important but put also in the context of serious reflection of what brought them to prison.
Thomas Sandidge
There are many wisdom traditions that propose an art if practiced genuinely lead to truth. But, you raise a curious point. What is the truth that there is no art you believe we don't have to search for it? For maybe it's the same or different that one or more wisdom traditions propose.
Tarik,
I like the way you put that scientists are looking everywhere for life, but I would add except what's right in front of them. We have a mind, which we have little understanding about and ignore the question what is its excellence? But, instead of learning the excellence of mind, we travel and probe and look for "life" as if we know what it is and will recognize it when we find it. Why are we so ignorant, keep repeating the same mistakes, blow each other up and yet we are humans. It's as if we are afraid to face that we are ignorant of so we run to a corner where we think we can find an answer to calm our fears.
My correction to Thomas. I didn't see he was asking the question to Ann Marie. But, I will instead change the sentence to read, that Thomas ask an interesting question to Ann Marie. And my response as noted.
Thomas,
"Si estamos en búsqueda de la verdad, es que aún no la poseemos". (artistic)
It is: "If we are looking for truth is because we don't possess it yet". (approximately)
R. L.
About what model I use... (I don't understand you, but only I can say that my way, my steps, are very normaly... I think). My way is only one way more, no plus. (I think).
About the prisoners, I never work with they, sorry. This was a comment of Thomas.
I feel this question may split in many ways:
1) From a science stance: As we analyze various forms of life, what can we deduce must be the "aim" of life. I find this stance rather uninteresting and prone to all sorts of diffculty.
2) From a philosophical stance: How should we live our own life? What are the personal factors that drive us, that satisfy us, etc. Can we codify these? Can we make them coherent? Does our life weigh more than other life (plants, animals, etc)? Or are our aims equal in weight to theirs?
3) From a sociological stance: How do we design a society where people can live their particular "aim" of life? Where does one person's aim encroach on another persons? How do we draw the line?
4) From a parents stance: How do we provide for the development of children to maximize the attainment of their aims? What are "good" aims and what are "bad" aims.
5) From a seeker's stance: What are the questions I should ask to discover these aims of life? How do I weigh the answers? How do I implement my choices?
Ana Maria,
Sorry for my bad Spanish translation. It struck me that since science cannot tell us about such spiritual questions, that maybe art can show the way.
I think what makes the human heart sing are the positive feelings: loftiness, be loved, love, feel the beauty, share emotions, etc. etc. etc. But to can feel all this we need other feelings, like fear, risk, doubt, bet, ugliness, etc. etc. etc... For that we need "to play" (jugar) to make our heart sing.
Regards.
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