Life Purpose

"The birth of everything: plants, animals, human beings, happens in the great care of nature. Death can be every little contingency. Obviously, in the life of man, the struggle of life (for a purpose unknown to us) is more important than the securing of the body for a long time. The body, after all, engages man also to sufferings, and there are enough of those sufferings that touches us. Surely the Creator could have made the human body to last for thousands of years. All it would have taken was a slight change in the law of cellular senescence. But the purpose of life is not earthly."