A New Earth
nothingness out of which it came – and perhaps repeat the cycles of birth,
expansion, contraction, and death again and again. For what purpose? “Why
does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” asks physicist Stephen
Hawking, realizing at the same time that no mathematical model could ever
supply the answer.
If you look within rather than only without, however, you discover that
you have an inner and an outer purpose, and since you are a microcosmic
reflection of the macrocosm, it follows that the universe too has an inner and
outer purpose inseparable from yours. The outer purpose of the universe is to
create form and experience the interaction of forms – the play, the dream, the
drama, or whatever you choose to call it. Its inner purpose is to awaken to its
formless essence. Then comes the reconciliation of outer and inner purpose:
to bring that essence – consciousness – into the world of form and thereby
transform the world