The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

You have asked “Why am I alive?” in one form or another. The answer has to do with what you do with meaning and happiness.

Everyone wonders at some point in their lives, perhaps at several points in their lives, why they are alive. What am I doing here (on earth)?

Here is the answer, as I see it, in three words: expression, animation and manifestation. (That these three words rhyme is fortunate.)

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We need to start with what many name God. Please drop all baggage you may be carrying that contains the term “God.”

Let me give a working definition of “God” here that we might start fresh. God is a Singularity. The Singularity. It may be said that God is the Universe – The Whole of It. The Entirety.

As such then God cannot do anything but be everything. God cannot be in relationship to anything else because there is nothing else. But by terms that we humans understand, being The Only means there can be no relationships.

Without relationships, entities cannot not define themselves. God cannot say “I am thus and you are such.” In God’s life there is no “such” because there is no other.

So we came into being, through the mind of God. (I believe it may be that there are other sentient beings in the Universe wherein God may be found as well. But we are dealing with humans only in this writing.)

What then is the reason we are alive? We are to be the expression, animation and manifestation of God. We give what we term as “life” to God. We can be in relationship to other things and beings.

Without our expression, God would be silent, eternally silent. But we can sing and dance and speechify and paint and write and sculpt. We can do all manner of benign and malignant things to declare our aliveness. By so doing we enliven God.

Because we have the largest mental capacity of any beings we know, we can genuinely say that we have the greatest range of animation possible as well. We can be the most alive of all the species on this earth.

By that I mean we can be the most diversified in terms of liveliness of all else upon this planet. In our dancing and speechifying, etc., we can give the widest range of possibilities. Because we have this potential it behooves us to demonstrate it as best we can.

We do not yet know the limits of our possibilities.

We are also the most manifesting creatures that we know. Because God is The Singularity, God cannot manifest, or be incarnate outside of Itself, for there is no “outside of Itself” when it comes to God.

But because we have the capacities of expression and animation, we can be the most manifesting creatures. We can make the most things and or experiences real, tangible, incarnate.

That is part of our job description – to make things and thoughts real. We can take the thoughts of God and make them “appear” within The Singularity.

Here are the reasons you are alive:
1. To be the expression of The Singularity.
2. To be the animation of The Singularity.
3. To be the manifestation of The Singularity.

What does this have to do with meaning and happiness?

When you make constant and deep connection with The Singularity, you plug into The Singularity. You realize your place within The Singularity. In that meld you find the meaning of your life. Expression, animation, manifestation all give you meaning. That meaning has a one word expression – happiness. To know your meaning is to know happiness.

You then show your happiness to yourself and to others by expressing yourself, animating who you are by actions in the world, and by manifesting what The Singularity is through your own life.

There you have the whole package: meaning, happiness, purpose.

You are alive to be what The Singularity cannot.

Get to it.

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“What’s the meaning of life, Dr. Bob?” asked Chuck.

Chuck was a man in his late 30s who was recently divorced. He now saw his two children on weekends and alternating holidays. He was neatly dressed in faded blue jeans and western style shirt. He was manager of the local farm and feed store.

“To be happy, Chuck,” was my answer.

“Yeah, I knew you were going to say that,” said Chuck. He had been attending, for some time, the community I led. He was familiar with my philosophy. “But what’s that got to do with me? I mean my day-to-day life? I mean, I think I know an answer, but I am not sure.”

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“What’s your idea?” I asked Chuck. Always good to let the counselee answer if they can. Helps them to own their own ideas and statements.

“Well, I think it means that when I find happiness, I will spread that happiness by beaming my bliss into the world. And while spreading that happiness I will reinforce my own inner happiness and my outer worldly happiness.”

“I couldn’t have said it better myself,” I said.

Chuck said, “You have said it often enough, Dr. Bob. But I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the idea. At the moment, because of the divorce and the absence of my kids, I feel kind of lost.”

“You are not feeling happy, then?” I asked Chuck.

“Nope.”

“First off, to be feeling down because of the change in your family situation is normal. To be a little lost or confused is also normal. But I suspect that your personal happiness is not as connected as it needs to be.”

Chuck asked, “What do you mean by ‘connected’?”

“I mean you need a solid and steady connection with The Source Of All That Is. How often do you meditate?”

“Not regularly and not very often, Dr. Bob,” said Chuck.

“Thanks for being honest with me and with yourself, Chuck. You know what I am going to say next, don’t you? You need a regular meditative life. There is just no substitute for it. Of course, we all skip a day now and again. But that skipping has got to be the exception, not the rule. Let’s do a guided meditation right now.”

I led Chuck in the guided meditation where you dump all your cares, concerns, troubles, victories, joys, into a beautiful blue mountain lake. Watch as they sink out of sight, as if absorbed by the lake. Then just sit by that lake and absorb the beauty and peace that surrounds you.

Most everyone comes away from such a meditation refreshed and feeling happier.

“How are you feeling now, Chuck?” I asked.

He said, “It’s awesome. I feel a lift after just that short time in meditation. Now what do I do?”

“What do you feel like doing?” I asked.

“I feel good enough to text my kids and see how they are doing.”

I said, “Do you see the carry-over? You feel a noticeable bit better and you want to share yourself with your kids. There is the way it works. You feel good. You have bliss and you want to beam that bliss into the world. What better place than with your kids.”

“Come on, Dr. Bob, it can’t be that simple.”

“I get that a lot,” I said. “But it really is that simple.”

Chuck and I shook hands as he rose to leave. He was pulling his cell phone from his pocket as he walked through the door of the office.

It is that simple. Develop a real and regular connection with The Source Of All There Is. The meditative arts are the way to go with that, in my opinion.

Then, when you are feeling exuberant, to one degree or another, use that enthusiasm to beam your good feeling into the world.

Go to it.

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People look at happiness in different ways. I believe, however, that the very basis of true and lasting happiness is a connection with The Source of All There Is.

You make and keep that connection through the meditative arts. Meditation and or prayer are the foundational meditative arts. There are several different kinds of prayer as defined by religious organizations. There are scores of ways to meditate.

Choose a way to be in meditation that fits you. Use that art to make and maintain a linkage with The Source of All There Is.

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Then choose one or more of the following to help cement happiness in your day-to-day life. Happiness is based on a connection with The Source of All There Is. But that must manifest itself in every day living. Here are five ways to do that.

Way One: Do not forget to have fun. Easy enough, isn’t it?

But you might be surprised at how many people think scheduling fun is wrong-headed. They think fun needs to be totally spontaneous. I am certainly not against spontaneity.

Workaholics, for example, tend to work all the time. Then crash when not working. What they need for their own good, and the good of their relationships, is to actually schedule in some fun.

If not, they will burn out. Trust me on this, I have been there. Pushing, pushing, pushing was I in my career years. I burned out on at least three occasions because I did not have enough fun.

Don’t let that happen to you. If you have difficulty ad-libbing into recreation, schedule it.

Way Two: Find new avenues to explore using what you consider to be your strengths – express yourself. This can be anything from physical labor, like chopping wood, to expressing yourself by writing poetry.

Once again, you need to do this on a regular basis. You do not necessarily need to be scheduling this activity or activities. However, you need to find some way of making it regular.

Neglect in expressing yourself will lead to a stuffed-in feeling. I know this is difficult for the males who are reading this, perhaps more so than for the females. Men have been trained, by-in-large, to hold in expressions of themselves. Women are sometimes encouraged to express themselves quite freely.

Nothing wrong, essentially, with either of these approaches. But leaving expressions bottled up inside clogs the arteries of the spirit. We all have spirit and we all need the spirit to be free flowing.

Express yourself in some positive way on a sustainable foundation.

Way Three: If you are a people person, thrive your relationships. That is, put energy into your friendships and kinships.

We like to think that relationships just happen and that we do not need to specifically invest energy into them. Please let me explain to you that friendships and kinships do not happen by themselves.

I apologize if you already know that. When I look around at my own family and the families of many others (not all, of course) it is apparent to me that folks either don’t know this idea or don’t care about it.

In other words, relationships and kinships suffer all the time from lack of attention. To thrive any affiliation needs care. If not, they fall apart. And the longer they are apart, the harder it feels like it would be to repair and reinvigorate them.

Invest in human communities be they of three people or thirty.

Way Four: find out what your purpose is. You may already have an idea for yourself. Follow your chosen purpose. Yes, I said “your chosen purpose.” You choose who you will be. You choose what purpose you will pursue.

Now, if you don’t have any idea what purpose is yours, here’s an idea.

When you have made contact and connection with The Source of All There Is, and you have found total and unconditional acceptance there, you will be happy. The Source accepts you without qualifications of any kind. No greater happiness is there than total acceptance.

When you have felt that acceptance, then you are ready to assume a purpose in life. The Source is a Single Entity – a Singularity. The source encompasses the entire Universe. It is the entire Universe.

As a singularity, it cannot experience because it is complete within itself. We experience by being in relationship to other things and people. The Source cannot do that as It is a singularity.

So, The Source needs you to experience on Its behalf. You can be in relation to any number of things and folks. Your purpose in life can be to experience – all that is possible for you to hold.

I recommend you try to experience everything positive as the negative will usually get you into trouble.

Experience is, or can be, your purpose in life.

Way Five: accomplish something. Many people, perhaps you yourself, feel themselves driven to accomplish something. Leave a legacy.

I was that way once, so I know where you are, if you are there – driven.

Set goals. Devise mile-markers that describe your progress to those goals. Take little steps or take giant steps. Get off your duff and achieve.

As long as you don’t burn yourself out, see above, be driven all you want.

As long as you don’t neglect relationships, see above, be driven and achieve.

As long as you don’t neglect expressing yourself, see above, be driven and accomplish.

As long as you don’t neglect your great purpose, which is to experience, see above,  be impelled and attain.

There you have five possible ways to develop your happiness in your world. Choose one or more, even all five, and use them. Start now.

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One Person Can Change The World