The general goal of life for man is embedded in you, because you are part of the whole

The Argonauts, by Edmund Dulac

The general goal of life for man is some kind of hope, some kind of safety, some kind of permanency.

Don’t say, ‘Is that all?’ That is the immediate fact, and you must first be fully acquainted with that.

You must question all that—which means, you must question yourself.

The general goal of life for man is embedded in you, because you are part of the whole. You yourself want safety, permanency, happiness; you want something to which to cling.

Now to find out if there is something else beyond, some truth that is not of the mind, all the illusions of the mind must be finished with; that is, you must understand them and put them aside.

Only then can you discover the real thing, whether there is a goal or not.

To stipulate that there must be a goal, or to believe that there is a goal, is merely another illusion. But if you can question all your conflicts, struggles, pains, vanities, ambitions, hopes, fears, and go through them, go beyond and above them, then you will find out.