The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

Your center is most important for you and the meaning of your life. When you live at the periphery, you are missing the meaning of your life.

Now, of course, you may prefer to live at the fringe of your life. It is sometimes dangerous there. When you are not operating from the center of your life, you are far from the excellent decision making tools you already possess.

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For example, suppose you have happened on a shady opportunity, like, say, selling drugs to make money. At the periphery of your being, there is little to think about or care about. You want money so you take this seemingly easy way of getting it. What can it hurt? Folks sell drugs because other folks want drugs. They have chosen the use of drugs. You will just be the supplier. You won’t get hooked either. You are stronger than that.

The problem is, no one living at the outside edges of their own life, has the power to say “No” for long. Too easy to get mixed up in your own product. Too easy to be corrupted by what would seem to be easy money. And lots of it. (Truth is, most drug dealers make very little. Only the king-pins make big money.)

Also, you are operating outside the law. I won’t debate with you here what the law ought to be. In most every place in the United  States, drug trafficking is unlawful.

Can you see where you are going? Operating at the margin of your life, you set yourself up for trouble. No matter how clever you are, corruption is knocking at the door of your life. In order to survive your life-style, you need to change it. You need to move in toward the center.

Why go to the center? That is where you can concentrate who you really are. If you think drugs in any form are necessary to your self-image, then you do not know who you really are. When you live at the fringe, you cannot draw your life into focus. You are who others say you are, at the edges of you. You want to be, need to be, who you really are as you say so.

At the center of you, you get to concentrate. Why concentrate? You need the opportunity to be in contact with the base of your existence. If you are shattered and scattered in little pieces, living at the exterior of your personality, you cannot make contact with the Biggest Seller of All. No, It does sell drugs. It gives meaning and happiness.

But you have got to place the most of yourself you can gather into Its Hands. You can only do that by living at the center of your life. Fragmentation at the edges is a losing proposition. Look at cherry pie, for example. (I love cherry pie.) If you set the whole pie on a table and proceed to bash it with a baseball bat, what happens? It becomes unappetizing to look at. You may not want to eat any of it in that condition. (It may still taste like cherry pie, but looking at it all bashed up, might just turn you off to tasting it.)

Just so with your life. If it is all bashed up, as you live at the edge, it does not resemble a human life. If you insist on living that way, you even risk being turned off by your own self.

What all of us need to do, what you need to do, is bring yourself to your core. Within you, and each of us, lives a core, an essence. It is in this core-essence where you really are. It is literally the heart of who you are. You long to be whole, complete. It is from this nucleus that you make contact with the Big Seller. Although, the Big Seller then becomes the Great Giver. What does It give?

When contact is made and maintained, you get meaning and happiness. The Great Giver helps you pull yourself together as It invites you to be who you really are. When you are you, you have no need to live at the fringes of your self. As you are turned into your center you become your true being.

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I have always said, Take care of this life and the next life will take care of itself. So, we must do our part to see that we make the most of this life. But more, when we take care of this life internally, not only will the next life take care of itself, so too will the life outside ourselves today. The contemporary outside life will unfold automatically. We can respond well to the circumstances of our lives.

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When a flower of any sort is planted properly, watered sufficiently, feed rightly, it will blossom in its time.

That is a near perfect metaphor of your life. When you take the effort to cultivate the inner life, finding meaning and happiness, your worldly life will be well-handled. Your response to life will be as appropriate as is possible for you in that moment.

Let’s start with your inner part of the this bearing of blossoms.

At your being-core, there is a nexus between yourself and the God/Universe (whatever term you may care to use, other than God/Universe, will work just as well). You become aware of this nexus through prayer or meditation.

You may discover as you meditate that there are a number of what might be called levels. I hesitate to label or otherwise enumerate these levels. Because, first, these levels are not achieved but advanced upon over the natural course of meditation as a life style choice.

Nor, second, is one trying to beat anyone else to the next higher level. There is no competition in meditation, only a sincere desire to rise through the levels yourself and aid any other who might ask of you the way.

The God/Universe is found through stillness and relaxed thought. When contact is made and maintained, happiness is the result of this stillness and thought. Happiness in this context is to realize that you are a necessary and a needed part of the existence of the Divine. You are an individuation of the Divine. Without you, the Universe is not complete.

When you are out of touch with the Divine, the Divine is not complete, you are not complete. Because you are a necessary and a needed part of the Divine, you are accepted and loved just as you are, with all your history, past, present and future unconditionally accepted by the Divine.

When you feel this happiness and acceptance, you will know the meaning of your life. What are you to do as an individuation of the Divine? Just what you are doing now – experiencing. You did not know that before you found your happiness. Now you know that you are to experience, for what else could you be needed for, more important than experiencing.

There is no separation between yourself and the Divine. You have found that in your meditation over time. So what can you do for the Divine? You feel this need within to express your happiness and meaning. What do you need to do?

If the Divine is All There Is, and you are part of that Divinity by your very existence, what can you do to support the Divine and support your own life? Here is the answer: Because the Divine is Pure Consciousness, It knows everything. It has everything. It is everything. The one thing the Divine cannot do because it is Pure Consciousness, is to experience. That is where you came into the Universal Picture.

You with your spirit riding and dwelling in a physical body, you can experience. You contend with life every day, every hour. While contending with life, you experience all sorts of things. You do for the Divine what the Divine cannot do for Itself.

So, you let life open before you. You then unfold yourself to what is happening in life. Like a flower experiences the spring. The weather changes like your own experiences alter when dealing with the changes in your life. When the time is ripe, you unfold yourself, as the blossom you are, to experience Spring. The warmth of the sun, the nourishment of the soil, the thirst slaking of rain water, encourages you to open to these experiences. Life presents you with a pattern. You respond to that pattern by burgeoning.

When you have done your part to be ready for the spring by fulfilling yourself internally, with meaning and happiness, you unfold yourself, bloom, as a flower responding to Spring.

When you have done your part in happiness and meaning by making eternal connection with the Divine, you respond to life as it happens around you. Coming from the spiritual stage of happiness and meaning, you are prepared to make the best and the most of whatever life offers you.

Do your part within. Then, without, your experiences will unfold in the way that you want them to.

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Okay. So happiness begins inside you. So does the meaning of life, which I believe is to be happy. By making solid, long lasting connection with Ultimate Reality you find happiness in the core of your being.

This link is maintained and grown through meditation. When you have made concrete the interaction between yourself and the Ultimate Reality, you will understand that the meaning of your life is to experience.
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The highest experience you can have is to be who you really are. When you find who you really are you will be happy. Happiness will help you see who you really are.

I can say that what I stated just above takes care of the inside of you. But what about the outside? Surely you would want your worldly experience to be as positive as possible. So what do you do to make your corporal-world experience as constructive as possible? Just because you have it made on the inside, does automatically clean up your worldly circumstances.

So here are six steps for you to take to make day-to-day experience as good as possible.

1. Prepare. Before you sleep the night before, plan your next day. Of course, you must allow for the unexpected. Still, you can plan by having your clothes ready. Plan how you deal with lunch. Time with kids and family. Time for yourself. Is your briefcase packed properly? Meditation time?

To be prepared takes some of the mental load off of getting something done. By preparing you can have time for meditation, for example, on a fairly regular basis. Remember, in meditation you find your happiness. When you have found happiness, you have discovered the meaning of life.

2. Reward. Going through life in the world without reward is a dreadful task. Make sure that you set aside time to reward yourself with a review, for example, of what you have accomplished that day or week. I always find that when I keep track of my accomplishments and then read over them at such periods, I feel much better.

I feel much better because I can see that I am making progress. Before I found the secret of keeping track in a small unobtrusive way, I was more prone to floundering. Therefore, less happy with my way in the world.

3. Surround. As much as is possible in your life, surround yourself with positivity. If you wish, you can start by making your work place brighter. Seems trivial, I know. But simply by brightening your work area with, say, a bright poster with a positive sentiment on it, will do wonders for the atmosphere in which you work. If you work at home, make sure that you work station is a bright as possible.

Then we go from the trivial to something quite profound – the people you who surround you. As far as is possible, gather to yourself those who are positive. Negative people can really sabotage your efforts when they bring their negativity with them.

Of course, everything between brighter and people needs to be made as positive as possible when it enters your world in any way.

4. Empty. Empty your life of as much negative stuff as possible. Do not keep tempting food within easy reach at home or school or work. Avoid as much negativity as possible. Whether it is people or food or reading material, empty your life of negativity.

When temptation is removed from easy access, you have an easier time of staying on the positive path you have chosen. That path may be to lose weight, or to be more productive at work, or to have healthier relationships, or ….

5. Habituate. Make new, positive habits. Yes, you may have some negative habits you wish to break. You will be far happier in your every-day dealings with your world with positive habits. Bad habits are so hard to break.

So instead of breaking them, make new habits that override the old. It is far easier to develop and maintain good habits than to try to break ancient habits. Creating new, better habits is simple, really. Just do the good thing over and over again until it becomes automatic. That’s what a habit is, after all. A habit is something you do over and over again, almost a compulsion.

6. Remind. Remind yourself of what you want to do, in a positive way. The human mind is a great asset. However, the asset needs cultivating. So, put up posters in your environment that emphasize in a positive way what you want to accomplish.

Yes, put them on the walls of your work place. Stick them up on the mirror you use to get ready at the start of your day. Even your car dashboard, if possible.

My office walls are covered with sayings, maxims, aphorisms. All in an attempt to remind my mind of things I need to imbed in my conscious and unconscious life.

7. Countermand. Bonus Step 7. Countermand any idea that the above six have a particular order. Begin work on them at any place in the order. Even jump around if that works for you.

There you have it. Six, uh, seven steps to a happier life: prepare, reward, surround, empty, habituate, remind, countermand. Put these into practice and, coupled with happiness within, you will significantly aid yourself in having a happy life.

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