Is Our Life Purpose to Love?

What is the meaning of life? This is an often asked question, with generally vague or meaningless answers. Some people take a religious stance, some take the “no meaning” perspective, some say the question itself is baseless. No matter, here is my short take on the subject.

 We (living beings with consciousness) are the way the universe experiences itself. We are a self-aware part of consciousness that allows for the experience of "reality" itself. Why are there realities,  if not to experience them? This does not imply a static situation, rather a system of evolving "reality", individual and collective, based on the quality of the experience and our contribution to the experience. Are these experiences just for the joy of it? Perhaps not entirely.  If you accept that meaning and purpose are intertwined, then, what is the purpose of experience?

The school of thought that makes the most sense to me goes something like this: Super-consciousness, or God, or Universal Life Force, or metaphor of your choice; has a goal of increasing or evolving a higher quality consciousness. The way to do this is to set-up a situation, an experiment, throw sub-sets of itself into the mix as "experiencers", and see what the outcome is.  So how is “higher quality consciousness" measured? I sense an entire post on this subject, however, in a word….Love. Turns out that love is the most efficient way to achieve improvement. Now, if you accept that we are a sub-set of _______ (insert your belief system), then we have some input into the experience and a contribution to the improvement of love.

There are likely billions of these reality experiments happening at the same time. Certainly on a local scale, my reality is much different than yours, and on a regional scale the American reality is much different than the Chinese reality. But, I don’t think we can really discount possible alternative cosmic and universal realities as well. We really can only sense a very, very small set of the information available, so to reject other possibilities seems short-sighted, ha-ha-ha. All of this sound a little New Agey? Probably, but I know I feel most alive, aware, and purposeful, when I am intensely present with all my senses in the experience.

What are your thoughts or beliefs?