"We dance around the circle and suppose while the secret sits in the center and knows" - Robert Frost

What is this all about?

This is all about one man's (Will) quest to discover what the meaning of life is. It is as simple as that. Now if you want to understand why I am doing this you have to know a little bit more about meso let me tell you about myself. Find out about what makes me tick, what circumstances have occurred in my life that brought me to this, and why I have embarked on this quest. Understanding Will and why he is making this sojourn

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep–while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

The Question of the Meaning of Life

Don't you ever wonder about why you are here? What strange set of circumstances brought you to this place and time? How is it that you exist in the here and now? And for the billions of years that the universe has been around where were you? Why is it that right now in this moment you exist yet for the previous billion years you didn't? (Or at least you have no recollection of it.) And after you die is it game over? Do you go back to where you were before you came here? Or do you go somewhere else.

But let's get back to the point at hand. There is a reason why we are here. The problem is that we don't know what that reason is.

And this brings up another problem. How do you know what to do if you don't know your goal? What I mean is: How can you live the life you were meant to live if you don't know why you're here? What if you have it all wrong? What if you are are on the wrong path? What if you're not even on a path at all.

Since The Beginning of Time We have searched

The Epic of Gilgamesh

As human beings we have all struggled with the question of the meaning of life. This is a thread that we all share with humanity throughout our history. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the oldest book known to mankind. It was written on stone tablets a thousand years before the Iliad and the Bible.You should read this story. There is a new version out with a clean and easy to read english translation.

The Plan

There are four different approaches to the search that I am taking:

• Books - There are books that range back for centuries I will explore these books. They represent the wisdom of people past and present
• People - I will talk to people and get their ideas. I will do this in two ways: I will ask people when I meet them and I will send people letters
• Introspection - I will examine myself for the answer
• Travel: I will travel to places and meet more people On the list of travel is Tibet, Rome, Washington D.C. and others

The Golden Rule: There is one very important Rule in this quest

"Follow your Bliss" -Joseph Campbell

Isn't it interesting that the word "if" is positioned right in the middle of the word "Life"?

We Have a common sky. A common firmament encompasses us. What matters it by what kind of learned theory each man looketh for the truth? There is no one way that will take us to so mighty a secret. -Symmachus A.D. 384

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