To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But at least in my experience you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
Ends and purposes whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law and equality not separation was written into the law.