[align=center]The Sojourner’s Questions[/align]
Life is a journey and a sojourner is someone who pauses, along the way while traveling from place to place, to ponder and think. Life is a journey, from birth to awakening to death. If you stop to think about it, no matter what you are doing, you are on a journey. And stopping to think about it is the whole point. Even if you try to remain perfectly still, you cannot avoid moving as a passenger on planet earth and through the series of life’s experiences.
A sojourn is a rest stop, during which the traveler enjoys a brief time out from normal activities. A sojourn makes it possible to re-gather energy, to reflect on what has become before, and to prepare to set out again and continue traveling wherever it is he/she has decided to go. A sojourn can help you take the next step in a carefully considered direction. The sojourner’s questions concern both traveler and the meaning of the journey
What is the point or purpose, if any, of the journey? Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? And more important, perhaps, what is the meaning, if any, of my life? How should I think about the existence of the universe and my place in it as an individual? Am I just an animal or a conscious biological machine that has come about through a chance sequence of events through the forces of nature? Or is there a larger plan, which it might be my responsibility to discover and in accordance with which I should try to live my life? Is there a deeper meaning to be found, ore life altogether meaningless and devoid of any purpose? Is life, after all, as we might have heard some people say, absurd
What is the point or purpose, if any, of the journey? Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? And more important, perhaps, what is the meaning, if any, of my life? How should I think about the existence of the universe and my place in it as an individual? Am I just an animal or a conscious biological machine that has come about through a chance sequence of events through the forces of nature? Or is there a larger plan, which it might be my responsibility to discover and in accordance with which I should try to live my life? Is there a deeper meaning to be found, ore life altogether meaningless and devoid of any purpose? Is life, after all, as we might have heard some people say, absurd
The sojourner’s questions arises only when we slow ourselves down enough to ask it, and only then, if we allow ourselves sufficient time to consider possible answers
Taken and modified from
Dale Jacquette, Six Philosophical Questions , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, USA, 2001
Dale Jacquette, Six Philosophical Questions , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, USA, 2001



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