There is no goal only doing

We might ask: What is the best way to approach life when I can't see that it has a purpose?

What do you most like to do? Of course, anything pleasurable has a purpose within it to some extent... But we have no reason to imagine that our actions are of broader significance. Equally importance can be attached to the most "insignificant" of things.

When you "do" something it always creates a reaction, something else happens. We use goals to constrain our behaviour so that we limit our possible outcomes and only allow restricted meaning to be attached to what we learn.

If we set out without a goal than all outcomes can be interpreted as an achievement, not just that which we stipulated.

24th January 2009