Out of emptiness comes this:
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these
purposes
Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the
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An excellent grappling with the social and psychic ramifications of goal seeking behavior. How real is a goal if thinking is distorted to hold it high? It is wonderful that you have gleaned so much from the humanistic tradition about where purpose fits into our psychic economy. What you have done seems like a piece of literary performance art or conceptual art: you have set yourself the purpose of ferreting out the best that has been thought and said about purpose. Such a work must have a higher purpose, but it must be imagined or divined through acts of reception.
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An excellent grappling with the social and psychic ramifications of goal seeking behavior. How real is a goal if thinking is distorted to hold it high? It is wonderful that you have gleaned so much from the humanistic tradition about where purpose fits into our psychic economy. What you have done seems like a piece of literary performance art or conceptual art: you have set yourself the purpose of ferreting out the best that has been thought and said about purpose. Such a work must have a higher purpose, but it must be imagined or divined through acts of reception.