Life in Balance: Amit Chaudhary’s Blog
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My takeway:

1. I myself am not sure of the answer for myself to the question. The question that drives us Neo or see below.

2. Maybe 10% of the friends I know might have a good answer to the question, 15% would give it a thought, 75% would be amused or angry.
From Steve Pavlina’s Are You a Bear or an Eagle?

How would you answer the question:
“Why are you here on earth at this time?”

The vast majority of people are still asleep, meaning that they aren’t really conscious and aware of what their lives are all about, why they’re here, or what their purpose is.
I think of the conscious people as eagles because they have huge eyes and soar above the terrain, taking everything in and being able to see clearly over a distance.

Fortunately some bears, upon first being shown the sky and meeting other eagles, find it an awesome and enlightening experience. These are the bears that are ready to train up to eagle. They’ve grown bored with cave life, perhaps even depressed about it. They find no more joy in the cave, but they’re not sure where else to go, since the cave is all they’ve ever known, and other bears seem to be OK with it.

Eagles, however, are trained to recognize these awakening bears, and such bears will feel naturally drawn to eagles (even though their fellow bears will warn them not to do this, since other bears that have gone to see the eagles have been permanently changed and can barely function as proper bears now).

During a few years of training, the bear may straddle both worlds, sometimes living as a bear and other times as an eagle and never quite fitting in either world.