"The goal of life is consciousness"

[JJJcaine]

I'm curious what Leo meant by that. Is it for the trivial reason "we are what we think"? In that case it's not our consciousness itself that's important but the thing we pay attention to. Or is it consciousness in the meaning of being in the moment because it's the only thing we have? Even then it's not so clear consciousness is the goal.

[BipolarGrowth]

There is no goal unless you create one. Naturally, someone who has their goal as consciousness will tell you that consciousness is the goal. 

Edited March 12, 2022 by BipolarGrowth

[softlyblossoming]

45 minutes ago, BipolarGrowth said:

There is no goal unless you create one. Naturally, someone who has their goal as consciousness will tell you that consciousness is the goal. 

@BipolarGrowth Did/does this insight come from the absolute perspective?

[BipolarGrowth]

5 minutes ago, softlyblossoming said:

@BipolarGrowth Did/does this insight come from the absolute perspective?

I guess you could say that. Relative perspectives are what have goals. 

[Explorer_42]

Even absolute have a goal - exploration of itself in the only way it's possible - exploration of it's own infinite creativity from inside out from all possible finite perspectives. There's no end to this game and it's fun forever.

[BipolarGrowth]

7 hours ago, Explorer_42 said:

Even absolute have a goal - exploration of itself in the only way it's possible - exploration of it's own infinite creativity from inside out from all possible finite perspectives. There's no end to this game and it's fun forever.

This isn’t wrong in a sense, but this interpretation has a heavy human bias to it. 

[Explorer_42]

@BipolarGrowth that's correct. It's more of a metaphor.