If you engage in pointlessly hard practices/journeys, ones grueling enough to strip away addictions to comfort or addictions to novelty (and realize that each passing second is an infinitely novel rearrangement of time and matter), and in the process, learn to not just spout cliches, but iterate them anew and functionalize them for personal use…
Then those practices and journeys will have had a point.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Surely all journeys have a point. It is not recognising the point that is the problem.
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We’re saying the same thing in the end. I’m implying that the point may not be evident in the beginning, and that in order to realize the point, certain sacrifices regarding one’s ignorance must be made.
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Like what?……
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Like if you’ve given something a fair, consistent effort, and it becomes evident that acting on your beliefs does not propagate the results you predict, then it is time to raise the question that their might be a fault in your perception instead of blaming the environment or a personal lack of effort.
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I would, only if time existed! 😉
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It does to us humans, not to photons or black holes LOL!
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This was encouraging for me. I needed this.
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Thank you for the kind words!
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Meaning in Life, should be more thanks spouting cliches. I can agree with that, but—
Are you an Atheist?
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Agnostic.
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