Purpose of life is one of the central universal questions most people ask at some point of their adolescence. “Why am I living, what’s the point to study and train yourself, strive for goodness and refrain from evil desires?” This is not an easy question to answer, because the answer can be obtained only through personal contemplation and experience of reality.

Many world figures testified of universal love, that penetrates barriers of nation, race and even religion. True saints, sages and people of moral character to some extend loved everyone without distinction of social hierarchy, beliefs and traditions. Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Confusions, Buddha, Socrates, and others. They were delighted in the well-being of others and selflessly worked for others’ benefit even to the point of risking their own life.

Such love or compassion is called True Love, since it is given unconditionally. It is based in Ultimate Reality of God who loves everyone simply because we are God’s children and he is our Parent. Does parents love only obedient children and hate disobedient? Real parent cares for both, and often gives even more attention and love to the problem child.

True love can move anyone to rise above self-centered attachments and desires. It changes our perspective of life and shifts our focus to the welfare of the other. It is love that is universal, overcoming the ordinary tendency to focus only on your own desires and objectives or to favor your own group.

The ideal of true love is rare in the world. Such love requires the foundation of integrity, truthfulness, and unity with the Absolute (God). That’s what Jesus meant by saying “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.”

Why true love is so desirable? Because it brings true purpose to life. Without experiencing such love, people can never find their true purpose, true dreams and aspirations that can rise them above daily mundane routine and lead them through eternity.

If you are looking for the purpose of Your life, know that the key to finding the answer is in true love, in living for the sake of others. Even when you don’t feel great, making someone happy brings you fresh and awesome feelings, ignites a flame of desire to live and to be active, and feeds your imagination with new ideas. That’s the real secret to happiness – make others happy and you will find a deeper perspective of You life and eventually see it’s Purpose.

Quotes:

A man is a true Muslim when no other Muslim has to fear anything from either his tongue or his hand. Islam. Hadith of Bukhari

To the addict, nothing is like his dope;
to the fish, nothing is like water:
But those immersed in the love of God, feel love for all creation.
Sikhism. Adi Granth, Wadhans, M.1, p. 557

Only a Good Man knows how to like people, knows how to dislike them, Confucius said, “He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon Goodness will dislike no one.” Confucianism. Analects 4.3-4

Strong One, make me strong.
May all beings look on me with the eye of friend!
May I look on all beings with the eye of friend!
May we look on one another with the eye of friend!
Hinduism. Yajur Veda 36.18

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Christianity. Bible, 1 Corinthians 13