原文: The Purpose of Life

Here’s my attempt to write a short post, which for me means staying under 2,000 words.

Channeling my inner Seth Godin, here we go…

What is the purpose of life?

The purpose of life is to increase your alignment with truth, love, and power.

You are here to:

1. Discover and accept ever deeper truths.
2. Learn to love more deeply and unconditionally.
3. Develop and express your creativity.

#1 leads to wisdom.

#2 leads to joy.

#3 leads to strength.

The point of life is to learn to be wise, joyful, and strong — all at the same time and without compromising or sacrificing any of these. In order to improve one, you must improve all three.

If these pursuits aren’t your life’s highest priority, you’ve missed the point of life entirely. You’ll have a better sense of that when you die, at which point you will lose:

1. Your physical body
2. All your stuff (money, home, possessions)
3. Your positions and titles
4. Your physical relationships

If there is an afterlife, it’s likely that the only element of your existence you can possibly retain is your consciousness. Therefore, if you seek to increase your alignment with truth, love, and power, you may have the opportunity to retain those gains even after your physical death because such gains are nonphysical. Everything else stays here.

On the other hand, even if there is no afterlife, the pursuit of truth, love, and power while you’re here will make your physical existence much more meaningful and fulfilling as you experience it. Physical life becomes significantly easier when you root yourself to the permanent instead of chasing the temporary. Truth, love, and power are permanent because they’re universal concepts. Wherever there is consciousness, these concepts have meaning.

Regardless of what happens when you die, if you center your life around the pursuit of truth, love, and power, you can’t lose. You’ll have done your best.

Whenever you turn your back on truth, love, or power, you distance yourself from experiencing wisdom, joy, and strength. This means you’ll experience confusion, unhappiness, and weakness instead. Whatever problems you currently face can be resolved by realigning yourself with truth, love, and power.

Truth.

Love.

Power.

This is how you win the game of life.

Questions? Ask Seth.

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译文: 生活的目的

我试着写一篇短短的后记，2000字左右就足够了，用来沟通我内心的塞思·戈丁，一起来看看吧。。。

生活的目的是什么？

生活的目的就是增强你与真理，爱和力量的结盟关系。

你须做到：

1． 发现和接受更深层次的真理。

2． 学习更深入无私的爱。

3． 发展和展示的你的创造力。

·1 向往智慧

·2 向往欢乐

·3 向往力量

生活的目的是为了学习智慧，欢乐和强大——同步进行并且不会屈就或牺牲其中任何一个。为了发展当中的一个方面，你必须将三个方面一起发展。

如果这些追求不是你生活的最高优先级，那么你已经彻底错过了生活的目的。你得对你死去时，你会失去的东西有个更清楚的认识：

1.       你的身体

2.       你的一切（金钱，家庭，财产）

3.       你的地位和头衔

4.       你的关系网

如果有来生，你最有可能保留的唯一证明你存在的证据便是你的意识观念。因此，如果你寻求增强你与真理，爱和力量的结盟关系，那么即使在你的肉体死亡以后，你还有一个机会保留这些成果，因为这样的成果是非肉体的。一切仍保留在这俗世。

另一方面，即使没有来生，在俗世追求真理，爱和力量的经历会使你的物质存在更加充实和有意义。当你把自己立足于长久而不只着眼于当前，你的俗世生活会明显地变得容易起来。因为真理，爱和力量乃世界之定则，它们是长久的。有意识的地方，这些定则便有意义。

暂不论你死后会发生什么，如果你把追求真理，爱和力量作为你生活的中心，你不会迷失。你必将做到最好。

每当你背弃真理，爱，或力量，你使自己疏远了对智慧，欢乐和力量的体验。这意味着你反而要经受困惑，忧愁和软弱。你当前面临的任何问题都可以因你再次与真理，爱和力量的结盟而得到解决。

真理。

爱。

力量。

这就是你赢得生活博弈的方法。

有疑问？问问塞思吧。

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