What should our species be striving towards?

“One thing that is starkly missing with a vast majority of us is that we do not have goals or a direction in life. Simply saying, ‘I want to be a millionaire or earn lots of money’ is not a goal. Today, the majority of parents have broken the goal of life to ‘good education’ leading to a good job leading to a ‘good’ life. This is not a goal. Most people do not have contentment and hence live like moving corpses.We say there are four goals, all of which we aspire to at sometime or the other: Artha, Kama, Dhama, Moksha….”
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“I personally think we should stop striving. For what? Where are we trying to go? For what reason? To what end? Where is that taking us? The hustle and bustle of striving i feel is what created our fast paced consumeristic culture. The idea that we should always be striving to improve ourselves and the world is a direct statement that we don’t trust the natural world and we think there is some inherent flaw in it that we must take action to make it livable for us, as if nature doesn’t and isn’t already doing that. subconsciously applying this delusional view about the world to our experience then actions extracts all the mystifying beauty and the divinity that is the sacred worlds eminence of everything that is. I believe that is why we are seeing the problems we alone created today from an over emphasization of needing to improve nature and our experience when it doesn’t need it….”
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"The human species need only strive towards a more full present moment experience.  In other words, rushing and forcing growth and evolution is like choosing one cookie now over 10 cookies later.  It is what we have done for hundreds of years and caused widespread destruction to communities, the environment, and our own psyches.  We must take a step back and turn our minds and the collective mind, back in on themselves/itself.  This will yield a natural, broad, and accelerated evolution of humankind."

"We are not born as a sinner, born to repent and live in fear of judgement one day. We are all born with vasanas (tendencies) based on our past likes and dislikes and we come here to rectify those mistakes born out of wrong tendencies to grow. Growth is your nature. Instead of repenting and fearing, rectify. This is what life is about. God is not a judge. He has better things to do. Only thing you must fear or be angry about is your inability to act rightly. The whole purpose of life and death and life again is to evolve to the highest potential of who you are. Life spent in growing is sure to be enjoyable too. This is how the Gurus and enlightened ones come to help others... Maybe you, too, will be one someday."

“We have the blessing of consciousness and sentience. Expressing gratitude as often as possible is a good step in the right direction. Recognizing how blessed we are, we can then intentionally direct our thoughts, speech, and actions towards the greater good. We take part in needless waste, we cause needless suffering to other sentient beings, we foolishly see ourselves as separate from nature. Having become aware of this, we can now choose to avoid causing needless harm. One super powerful way to do this is by making conscious choices about what to buy and how much to consume. We can vote with our purchases, and choose not to support the by-products of animal abuse or environmental degradation. Redirecting our powerful cash flow in this way, we create the world that we want. (vegan, plant-based, cruelty-free, fair-trade, recycled, plastic-free, reused, repurposed, minimal, etc)….”
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"Ending ignorance by realizing that everything that is happening around us is connected to us and we are in fact responding 100% except for our mind. Our body is responding to stimuli without our knowing, our brain is receiving information that our mind is unconscious about, our heart is always sensing our energetic environment – but our mind is not present for all these subtle changes in our experience. Therefore, our striving needs to be towards increasing the range of our mind’s capacity for perception."

"We know very little about what we are doing here.  For all we know, this could all be a simulation.  Yet, despite (or perhaps because of) our ignorance, we are like flies attracted blindly but boldly to the pervasive light of evolution.  We yearn to progress, expand, and explore, even at the cost of our entire civilization.  The intelligence and Earth’s hints are there - telling us that in order to sustain and advance the species, we must evolve our ways to be in harmony with the Earth."

"Harmony, balance. Pushing the limits of our consciousness and intellectual possibilities while not stealing the possibilities from other life forms and the planet. Understanding, connection, peace."

"The human species need only strive towards a more full present moment experience.  In other words, rushing and forcing growth and evolution is like choosing one cookie now over 10 cookies later.  It is what we have done for hundreds of years and caused widespread destruction to communities, the environment, and our own psyches.  We must take a step back and turn our minds and the collective mind, back in on themselves/itself.  This will yield a natural, broad, and accelerated evolution of humankind."

"The Coronavirus has highlighted human nature - that when there is a perceived threat, we react as if for our survival.  We see this in sports, business, relationships, politics, and all throughout the spectrum of life.  We are now faced with a unique threat - climate change.  It is only different in the time scale it exists on.  We must first strive to understand the predicament fully, then spread the awareness to all humans.  As more people understand the immediacy and intensity of the threat, we can make more progress."