For me it's really more about creativity. I've always found it very presumptuous when people say that enlightenment is the ultimate goal of life, that we are just passing through on our way back to become formless. That's pretty much nothing more than a dogma of people for whom enlightenment is their only priority. Why even bother with this experience at all then, it's like playing a video game just so you can beat it, regardless of whether or not it is a good game that you actually want to keep playing. So what if everything is one, of course that's how it is and anyone who does anything in their life just takes that for granted. What really amazes me is the uniqueness of each individual being, the separateness and form.
Even with all of the problems I continue to experience in this life, which have been great and many, I still believe that it is more about manifesting your creativity, creating an artful role in the cosmic opera. Each life is like a work of art; as an artist moves from one work that has internal consistency to the next while still retaining his or her unique voice and style, so does the spirit move from life to life, always expressing itself (or learning how to, which are what the "lessons" of life, i.e. karma, are about).
