What is Profound

"I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now.
Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me."
-Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

What do you want out of life? - I think this is an important question that everyone need ask themselves at some point - preferably sooner than later. There are a great variety of ways of looking at the world, but I believe that they all have at least one thing in common - that this life is unique. This life is the only one like it that you will ever have. What then do you want out of life?

I seek to orient my life around that which is most interesting and that which is most profound. Those things that are profound leave the soul full and satisfied, indeed they fulfill the entire being. What is most profound is what you already have. The things one can acquire over a lifetime serve to only get in the way of what is best. God brings you into this world with all that is most wonderful and profound. Blessed are the poor for they are not distracted by everything superficial and meaningless.

Most profound is relating to God and relating to loved ones. Most satisfying is a walk in the rain or the wind in the trees. Most breathtaking is the look of one who knows you. Most invigorating is a race to that fence post. Most wondrous are the squirrels playing in the tree outside my window. Deepest is my hand in yours. Most fascinating is the wood grain on the boards of porch. Most sublime is the breathing and blood-pumping and the appreciation of being alive, of existing at all. Most sublime is being for another.

What I can buy doesn't interest me. I have no concern for any sort of 'progress' I can contribute to. If I climb a ladder I leave the only things I want in my life.