Once a child ask a friend of mine:
“Why are we born if we have to die?”
Please give me your thoughts in this.
Love,
Paulo
Once a child ask a friend of mine:
“Why are we born if we have to die?”
Please give me your thoughts in this.
Love,
Paulo
I believe that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we attract even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange…
Styled with arrariv
Death is like sleeping, is just a phase… The body is like a used cloth, when it is torn and too used, we get rid of it, we replace it with a new one.
I believe that reincarnation exists and that our Consciousness chooses everything we should experience because it is enlightened and knows what’s best.
I also believe that this cycle of birth, death, rebirth and so can be stopped when we become what we are supposed to become in the first place: evolved beings; when we become the Light, the Spirit.
We are parts of the Spirit but we have to become perfect, not only in some aspects, but altogether.
We evolved from the early stage of amoeba to becoming Perfection.
Summarized, we are always the Light but we must realize that, we must accept that and act as being the Light, the Superior Consciousness.
I also believe that we were created by God who gave us Love in order to become Love, to live in the Kingdom of God.
I also believe that we choose our parents, our homes, countries, lives, our Consciousness knows what is the best for our evolution. We have total trust in our Soul, in our Primordial Energy who is like a Mother to us: knows everything about us and does everything for us because She loves us so much!
God wants to see His and Her Reflection in us; God is already perfect, we must reach perfection by evolving all the time, this is the great difference. Like a seed, which has all the potential needed to become a great plant, or tree, or flower and so on, but it must grow and that’s why several stages are required till becoming what it was supposed to be in the first place.
God is desireless because God already has everything, what else is needed for God?
We instead have desires and when they are pure and strong, they can attract miracles into our lives, lives which are the greatest miracles ever because they are chances to grow, to evolve.
All my love and appreciation,
Carmen Larisa
Romania
Imagine a person sitting in a train station.
A train comes, stays at the station for some minutes and then leaves.
That person would not say that the train was born and died. That person would think that the train is making a journey and that it is necessary that this station exists in order to the train to continue its track.
That is our life, it is an station in our track.
Birth and death are mental concepts that humans have developed in their need to have everything defined and under control. Wild animals know about death, but they don´t bother about how much time is left, they live the moment.
Thus, we are not born and we don´t die, we just come and go, like the train, like the waves…
There is one more thing.
If we God’s children then we’re born to experiance as child does, by mistakes.
Love on the other way brings us back to God –
to be ONE.
LOVE LOVE LOVE
LOVE=GOD=UNIVERSE=HUMAN BEING??????
I believe we are born to feed…..to feed ourselves with as much knowledge as is possible, to feed others (humans and animals alike) with as much love as possible. Thank God (hwoever you see him/her) and the whole universe that we may die. And when we do, may we be grateful for the chance we had on this earth to feed and be fed. We should not collect anything on this earth, we cannot take anything with us, except the love bestowed upon us. God bless you all. To Paolo from Paul xxx
We are born because mother nature needs company(and god needs company if he really exists)
apparently we do not appreciate life unless we think of death.
so,its like in couples:
light and darkness
love and hate
god and satin
It’s simply nature.
Life and Death—–Two mysteries of this universe.Both lie in the hands of our creator.He sends us with some purpose on this earth and when our time is up,whether we have done our work or not,we have to leave this place.Why we are born and why we have to die,will for ever remain a puzzle that mankind will try to solve in different ways with different answers!!
Can you imagine your favorite story without an ending? Everything has to end. The day gives way to the night. The winter gives way to the spring.
Can you imagine living forever? To see everything you love and hold dear taken from you? Can you dream of still pressing on?
Can you imagine becoming a master of it all? You cannot because deep inside all of us is a question and that question is:
So what’s next?
And life is the answer to that call.
Now, behold, I have spoken unto you concerning the adeath of the mortal body, and also concerning the bresurrection of the mortal body. I say unto you that this mortal body is craised to an dimmortal body, that is from death, even from the first death unto life, that they can edie no more; their spirits uniting with their bodies, never to be divided; thus the whole becoming fspiritual and immortal, that they can no more see corruption
Alma11:45
My dearest Paulo,
The notion of life and death is mostly uniform across all religion. The difference in them is the before and after life. If we believe in the Divine being, we would have faith and trusted His Greatness.
Generally, The Divine one had created everything in Life to be balanced.For a man, He created a woman.For negative emotions, He allows us feel and enjoy the positive ones. He created habitat cycles to keep population balance, though it pains us to see the tiger pouncing on a zebra on National Geographic. For every life, there is death.
Bottom line, all are balanced.
The good things will come to an end. So will the bad. In your stories, you wrote about choices and how human made them. It is choices we make that lead us to our fate today, which is why people say that every decision-making is critical. Little do they realise the depth of this.
For every decision we make, there will always be consequences. The outcome of our choices can be either good or bad. But due to the ideology of balance, there will always be trade-offs.
We made a choice to be born, even though knowing death will come knocking on our door.
“Why are we born if we have to die?”
1. Scientifically, that’s what we learnt as life cycle.
2. Life cycles creates balance
3. Death is the trade-off to Birth
Love,
Mima
we are born because everything is possible. when we die we go again where we were before we were born and everything is possible again
¿Porqué Nacemos si vamos a morir?
POr mis principios cristianos, considero la vida como un regalo de Dios. pero de repente surge el dilema de… Si es la vida un regalo de Dios, porqué los tropiezos? porque obstaculos? porqué la maldad, la envidia, el terrorismo, la muerte, el odio, cual es la razón de vivir, si el mundo es cada dia más perverso, si la verdadera amenaza a la vida no es la muerte si no el mismo Hombre? –
“El Hombre es Lobo del Hombre” *Hobbes.
La razon de vivir, va más allá de vivir cada dia como si fuera el último, es más, debemos vivir cada dia como si fuera el Primero, con entusiasmo y felicidad. Imaginese saber que es este su último dia, que paz podría tener en los últimos segundos de vida que quedan?. Pero si vivimos como si fuera el primer dia, nos podremos comparar entonces con los niños, con la emoción, y el sabor que ellos le dan a cada dia de su vida, a cada cosa que los rodea.
Ahora tengo una sobrinita de 2 años y al verla sonreir, jugar, divertirse con sus primos, y a la vez llorar por pequeñeces, pienso en como sera su vida cuando tenga mi edad o sea mayor, cuando una piñata no sea suficiente para hacerla sonreir, cuando remplace sus muñecas y sus videos de las princesas de disney por el verdadero juego de la Vida. Cuando sus lagrimas no sean porq su mamá no le dió permiso de quedarse a dormir en casa de su tia. Pienso entonces, en protegerla, en dejarla ser niña y hacer que nunca pierda su inocencia, para hacer un tanto diferente su vida.
Sí, la vida es un regalo de Dios, un niño y su sonrisa son una bendición de Dios.
En lo personal siento que Dios me ha dado una grandiosa oportunidad. Vivir. Tengo la ventaja de saber que la muerte puede estar a un paso, y tengo más seguridad en la muerte que en la vida misma.
Pero de que sirve la vida si vamos a morir?
A la vida hay que darle un sentido, hay que honrar nuestras vidas dejando huellas. (honrando la vida, honramos a Dios)
Tenemos un propósito, una misión.
Jesus es el mejor ejemplo de vida y muerte. Vino al mundo y sabia cómo iba a morir y quien lo iba a traicionar aun así no dejó a un lado su mision. No cedió a las tentaciones, y dió el mensaje que debia de dar, dejó una huella.
Pero me imagino que explicarle todo esto a un niño es muy dificil. A ese niño que le preguntó a su amigo yo le diria, que en la vida tenemos una mision. Y es Sembrar un árbol. es Todo lo que debemos hacer. Después la muerte no es más que otra bendición de Dios.
I don’t know if we’ll ever truly understand the entire scheme of the universe. The way I rationalize death is through accepting that this life on earth is one stage of the many stages that the soul experiences. The soul existed before birth and will exist after death. Death can be/is painful for people to experience, but i guess the soul fulfilled the purpose it was here for and is ready to move on when a person dies (the soul leaves the body permanently). So to make it easier for a child to understand death, try to teach them that death is a part of life.
Dear child,
In the first place, it’s the law of Nature, it’s a cycle,
maybe it’s better to say it’s more like a spiral upward and downward:insemination, fecondation, birth, growth, rising, fall, death and decomposition then insemination ect…For the best, but it’s not always the case because death can appear at any time in the spiral and birth too, even if we try to control it, can appear out of the blue.
So there is not really a beginning nor an end.There are passages, steps and this as for material things as for immaterial or spiritual things (things that are created by the spirit).For exemple, an idea, good or bad, appears from things you’ve learnt then you could make something out of it that will disappear in its old form and inspire someone else for a new one maybe better or maybe not.
If you go further and adapt that theory to the soul of Men, you can call this process Karma which means action.
That is to say that our actions in this life condition the futur incarNations of our soul. The principal and most important difference is that we have power to decide, that we are free and it’s not only a bless that makes our lives enjoyable and lovable but it’s a hudge responsabilty. So if if we want to improve ourselves we’ve got to learn to do the right action at the right time, to choose the right path. Doing thus we could hope to be deliver from our condition (Cycle of reincarnations, Samsara) and be part of the children of the One that Is (Nirvana or Heaven).
To tell a long story short, the most important is in between things we have no control on, it’s the Moment you live and the things you do, say, think about, wish to, pray for.I think you could say that it’s not important from where you came or where you go but it’s the way you choose to make it through.
I hope I could have made it clear to you.
Love
Jaromil
Creo que Dios, nuestro padre nos envia al mundo en una misión de amor que una vez cumplida nos deja retornar junto a él.
It can’t be proven that we HAVE to die at all. We’ve always seen everyone die, but at the same time, we’ve always heard everyone SAY they have to. Has anyone ever researched that correlation?
Perhaps like everything else, there is no HAVE TO, as if we are subject to some external power, like bonded men.
Perhaps Life and “Death” are Our choice, in our hands, in our power and control, like everything else.
Perhaps we just don’t know Our capabilities, Our divine nature, through and through, and we’ve used our Power to constantly, however unknowingly, choose “Death.”
Like we do in so many other things.
In the depth of night, without a trace of dream, I existed without a body nor the universe. I existed as ‘I’. Then I woke and associated ‘I’ with this body and ask all this. The body doesn’t ask. The ‘I’ didn’t ask. The association asks. ‘I’ cannot move away , externalize or die away from ‘ME’. Easier said than reised however. Hence this birth to realize this truth.
I think we die because there is eveil in this world, if there was no we would go on living.
We are born, because the “Univer’s Memory” will have more experiences through us. We offer experiences to Him.That means two things: a)For God.God, always wants the best for us .In order to be huppy the man, God sends every moment many miracles to him.b)For us.In order to offer to the Lord the most beautiful experience of this life, we must enjoying and respect our life ,trying to live more, and as more as possible , with love.To achieve all above, we have to be used to try to find out the miracles of the every day, that He has exclusively sent to us in order to become huppy. Living by this way ,means that we are always in connection with Him and we feel grateful for the gift of our life.Because we live by the thought that there is a predestination for us, to be huppy .We are born to be huppy and not unhuppy. The only thing for us is trying to find out the everyday-gifts of God. God is everywhere for those who believe to Him and they can see Him everywhere.Those who they have not faith, they feel unhuppy, even though they live in the heart of the Heaven.
I suppose that this is the meaning of our life .Offering the best experiences by cultivate the most gentle forme of ourselves.
For the meaning of our death…I can not yet tell you.
Butterfly
We are never born
we never die
we have always been here
The same reason we sleep even though we have to wake up in the morning.
Sometimes our soul needs to experience/learn somethings in order to become complete and this is what we attain in our sleep called life which happens between birth and death.
We keep on being born untill our soul attains all it needs.
La muerte es un precioso regalo de Dios para que los seres humanos apreciemos la vida, materialicemos nuestros sueños lo más pronto posible y dejemos un legado para el mundo.
The death is a God’s precious gift in order that the human beings we estimate the life, let’s materialize our dreams as promptly as possible and let’s leave a legacy for the world
Life and death are an unseperable couple, like light and darkness. One cannot exist without the other. From the moment you are born, death is your constant companion. And above all you cannot really treasure life without being aware of death.
The purpose of our life is a journey towards our awakening to our true nature.In truth we are all god.That is all there is.Each life we experience as a wave on the ocean is another life nearer to the life in which we remember always,that we are that ocean.Through this awakening we realise birth and death are but an illusion.This is because who we truely are ie.God has always existed and always will.
“Why are we born if we have to die?”
Why must there be a reason? Reasons are things inside of us; this fact of life and death just is.
i think it is because we cannot die without being born…every moment someone is being born in some place while in another place, that same moment, there is one dying…is it not the essence of life?
The Universe is travelling from an endlessly compact state of all-potential, towards an endlessly dispersed state of nothingness. During that journey all must be expressed.
This means that everything has got to change into
something it wasn’t the moment before.
No single form or state can be permanent, or the universe would stagnate.
Another way of expressing this is saying that “God is going”. When you go, you leave something to approach something else.
This is science and religion.
This is Magick.
We born to make a journey and our task is to make it the better journey we can.
There is this magical period existing between birth and death that wants us to live.Living life just like that is a sheer waste.As you had pointed out wisely in your book “The Alchemist”,one needs to find out his personal legend and pursue it.Making mistakes is part of humanity and everybody makes mistakes.But learning from them is what matters.Guess somebody said something like “It’s not only better but more honorable to do mistakes than to do nothing”.How true!We humans mearn from mistakes and that’s the reason we live.We live to experience life thru hardships and joys and winning alone wouldn’t alone be fun!Finally,I’d say that humans are born to make mistakes and LEARN from them.That way life will be colorful!
La respuesta que se me ocurre es que nacemos y morimos pero entre esos dos hechos, vivimos y la vida es un viaje lleno de experiencias que hay que disfrutar y de las que hay que aprender. ¿Para qué? Bueno, esa quizá sea la pregunta de la semana que viene. O quizá aun tenga que aprender de esta experiencia para poder verbalizar la respuesta. Lo que se me ocurre es la respuesta de que a través de la sabiduría de la vida diaria es como encontramos a Dios, y Dios es la meta.
Eso me lleva a otra pregunta ¿Y que pasa con la gente que no cree en Dios? Pues… como yo creo, a mi manera, en él, pues no sé que pasa con la gente que no cree en él… Quizá la vida hay que vivirla para conseguir este tipo de respuestas y estar siempre preguntandonos acerca de las cosas para aprender.
Besos,
Miriam
Dear Paulo,
Death may not be the end of life – it may be the conitinuation of life. It is a mystery.
An old relative of mine once told me:
”Dear, youth is only appreciated by the ones that do not have it.”
I guess it´s the same thing with life. It is not before death strikes us as close that we wake up from our sleepwalking and acknowledge the miracle of being born. So, Paulo, we need death to appreciate life. And god´s way of telling us to appreciate it is by letting us know that it will end.
Dear Paulo,
my thought is also close to calorine said.
we are here to experience
whatever we planned to experience.
To know myself & others better…
love,
fusae
If we’re going to contemplate on Jesus life, I can say that… we were born because we have a role to play in this world. It depends on us on how are we going to play that role. We will die as we accomplished and fulfilled that role. And be home again… in Father’s arm. :)
As much as I find myself compelled to give a very “deep” and Christian answer, due to this being in the blog of a famous writer, I feel I am trying to answer a very simple question with much complexity.
So to answer the question to said child, and not necessarily to yourself, Paulo, I would say that,
We live to die. To make room, and make better, so that maybe our short lives of work, may make our future’s lives longer, better, and free.
Hay dos frases que me encantan que intentaran responder esa pregunta. La primera de un autor que desconozco dice asi:
“La muerte está tan segura de su victoria que nos da una vida de ventaja”
Y la otra, de el grupo My Chemical Romance, que dice:
“Oh, que equivocados estabamos al pensar que la inmortalidad significaba nunca morir.”
Creo mas en la segunda. Nacemos para alcanzar la inmortalidad.
XoXo
I believe that life is a gemstones immersed in a glass of water; one has got to empty the glass by drinking every drop of experience. The thirst of living is quenched by dying…oh, the gemstone is the life thereafter. Enjoy living!
Ryan
I learned to live without asking neither “why?” nor “what if?”. I had to be born, I had to post on your blog, I have to leave one day. Who am I but a speck in this vast endless timeless experience to ask such questions. I know my place. If there is a grand scheme or plan, I won’t be able to comprehend it. If the universe conspires, I will work with it, I won’t question it. Often a coincidence is mistaken for destiny.
And anyways, most questions that bothered me, I found answers to when I stopped asking.
God creates, God is immortal. Man procreates. A man dies only if he/she doesn’t pass something down, whether it is literature, work, legend, or DNA.
Life cannot exist without death.
we live to appreciate what life is all about, so when we die, it will all be worth-while.
& dying, is God’s only guaranteed promise to all his beings!
my two cents. ;)
Mr Coelho,
My thoughts on this is that we are born because God is giving us ( the world) another chance to fix the sins of others, we die because it is God’s punishment (if I can call it that) to us. god wanted us to live an eternal life and he is testing until we can not no more and die.
Sincerely ,
Norma
Dearest Paulo and friends
My mother always says that there is one thing in life you can always be sure of, that is you will die, maybe in an hour or a day or 100 years, it is inevitable to us all.
The point to this life, is what man is trying to discover for centuries, its also the basis of many religions and beliefs. Why are we here? What are we really? How should we live? All these questions have been toturing us since the begining of our kind.
It is important to see the mystery of it all keeps us going, it urges to learn more so that we ourselves are able to find what we believe in the most to be true. (We all know that what we believe in constitutes mainly to who we and manner in which we live our lives.) Because of this freedom to choose and learn from life itself, what to believe, everyone becomes unique.
This little game of discovering truths is what makes life exciting and challenging. This probably why only you, and you alone, can answer this question for yourself as it will differ from person to person.
I personally feel that you have one chance to live, and as you can not turn back to change a moment lived, you should live it to the fullest. Life is about experiencing yourself, discovering who you and what you love, and its about loving. Just loving- everything and nothing, and everything again. For me, I try to live to be the best person i can be in each moment so that if i were to die, at any point, i won’t have regret- i’d know i was always to true to who i was and did the best i could do in any situtaion.
Thank you for being
Yajna
A biblical point of view for this question is:
Death is one of the enemies of life. The prophesy tells us that it will be the last one to be done away with before mankind is restored to perfection.
We are born to live, we don’t live to die and death is like a deep sleep. Only a short while and we are awoken to life again but that time to a perfected life on a paradise earth where death shall have no dominion.
Love and light!
Lydia
Because without birth, there could be no death.
Without happiness, there is no sorrow.
We are born to live, and to love.
We die becuase our time on earth has come to an end..becuase it is time for us to live another life
No sé me ocurre la respuesta… pero eso me levanta mas preguntas, ¿acaso yo pedí nacer?
Dear Paulo,
I think that we are born into this reality to change ourselves and others and it continues on and on until we evolve to become the unity with God.
I think that we are never dying, only our body dies.
Our soul is always here and there helping others get closer to God.
love
Agnieszka
Some things in life are better kept hidden!
sometimes you may not know the answer to several question but that does not keep you from asking!
besides i am a christian and in christianity to die is to live!
Dear Paulo,
I think that we born to continue the journey that the human beings started thousands of years ago. The journey of living in this world and build it hand by hand, and give it back to the generations that will come. In other words, each one of us is important and his contribution will affect the humanity in general either in a good way or in a bad way. I don’t know if I answered your question, but this what comes to my mind while I was reading the question.
Best,
Saad
My dearest Paulo,
we are born to experience
we die to experience
love
Karoline
isn´t it a law in the Universe that all what is born has to die ? I could feel this when my son was born. I had the feeling that I have to go one day for to make space for the following generation ( for him) . I think that I knew all this before I was born again in this world and I accept it because I still have to learn much. So we are born to learn, and we have to die because life has to go on.
Love,
Markus