The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

I want you to have meaning and happiness in your life. Happiness and meaning are found by allying yourself with the Universal Harmony. This alliance is unshakeable from the standpoint of the Universal Harmony. In others words, nothing can ever separate you from It.

However, you can allow It to separate you from your problems. You can think that you are so involved in spirituality that you do not need to stand up to your problems and change them. You can think that your spirituality helps you detour around your challenges.

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You must not use your spirituality in this way. Why? Because you are not really living and, therefore, not really being happy. You try to live in a never-never land.

True spirituality is not an extreme where you lose touch with reality. Rather it is grounded in reality. Knowing nothing can destroy you, you tackle your problems. You change them or change yourself until you have won over them.

True spirituality, that is deep, abiding happiness, is anchored and reliable. It is not an escape. Knowing that you have all you will ever need already inside you, you can face and conquer any hurt.

Yes, the hurt will sting for a time. Or a problem will scramble your thoughts for a while. But you know you are stronger than it is. You have found that strength within as you have made a bond between yourself and the Universal Harmony.

Even unto death, you are as complete now as you will ever be. In other words, you can face even your own death and still a conqueror be. I know those are tall sentiments, but I also know they are true.

Spirituality is not hiding in a cave. It is not a little electric shock that closes your eyes to your challenges. Nor is it like a marijuana high that simply mellows you through your wounds.

Spirituality is a sanctuary where you go to be repaired. Wounds result from life’s cuts. You retreat to the hospital of spirituality to recover your strength and resolve. Then you charge out like a knight on a destrier to defeat the dragon which dared to stand against you.

But more than that, spirituality is a furnace where both heat and light are generated. A blast furnace of the spirit. So hot and so bright that problems cannot stand against its intensity. Just look at the vast engines of star-formation in the visible Universe. Imagine that power within yourself. You have it and make no mistake.

Envisage a blacksmith at his anvil hammering the red hot metal of a new tool. He heats that metal until it glows – hot. Then he hammers and shapes it till it meets specifications.

Finally, he plunges it into water to reharden it to useful strength. Spirituality is your own anvil and hammer, where you are shaped and hardened to defeat that which seeks to trounce you.

When you know your own happiness as the meaning of your life, you are forged into an implement to stand against all adversity. You know your own happiness and meaning through that brave and intense interface with the Universal Harmony.

Use your spirituality beginning right now to overcome your problems.

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We are all familiar with one person being jealous of another when that other seems to be taking a lover away. But jealousy can also be found when person A hates person B because B has received a promotion and A has not. Or won a contest. Or has more prestige.

But being spiteful in this way is not conducive to the meaning of life which is to be happy. If you feel jealousy toward another, then you are seeing yourself as diminished. Why does you ego turn against them so? How are they better than you?

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You see, when you have happiness within, you have no need of turning green-eyed. Yes, certainly, the other person is different from you, but so what? Because they are different, does that make you less than you thought you were? No.

Let’s take the obvious situation. Janet has become resentful of Beverly because Beverly seems to be gaining the affections of George, Janet’s long time friend and lover. At a party George seems to be captivated by Beverly. His eyes follow her and he laughs at her little witticisms. He is smiling a great deal in her direction.

Janet cannot help but noticed this. She feels she is losing George right there in front of her eyes. Emotions pile up inside Janet and she literally throws a glass of wine in Beverly’s face.

Of course, this creates a scene and George looks at Janet with great sadness and not a little anger in his eyes. But Janet just could not let George go without a fight.

The first thing that came into Janet’s mind was that she must destroy Beverly. Do you see how Janet’s ego became involved? She lashed out to protect herself from losing George. Janet was not strong enough within to let George go, if that was what he wanted.

She was not strong enough within because she did not have a firm grasp on happiness. She let her ego take over her life and make her see that she was less than she actually was. The ego, as we know, is a false task-master.

The ego says that we must protect ourselves from everything, or we are less than we could be. Happiness says, on the other hand, that we are complete as we are. When you deeply network with the Divine Consciousness such that you are truly involved in that relationship, you discover the meaning of life, which is to be happy.

You network in this way through meditation. Finding your center in the Divine Consciousness means that you no longer live for the ego. Free of the ego, you know that you are complete and whole just as you are. You do not need a significant other to complete you. Therefore you cannot lose someone in the conventional sense.

They may chose to develop a different relationship. But that new relationship for them does not belittle you. You are, nonetheless.

We all get tinges of jealousy when we are in relationships. We need to remember that we need not be less or feel less when someone significant to us develops another relationship. We are still the same in that link to the Divine Consciousness.

It may be slightly painful to watch a relationship change. But all relationships change in some ways, some small, some in huge ways. One relationship that never changes is yours with the Divine Consciousness in which you have happiness and meaning.

Never let jealousy come between you and the Divine Consciousness. Never let your ego rule your life. Find and keep the real you in that coherence between yourself and the Divine Consciousness. This way you will fulfill the meaning of your life, which is to be happy.

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Snapping through my office door one morning was Abbey. Sprite that she was, she often seemed to do this. No announcement; just twinkle and she was there. She is an elf-like creature who commonly charms everyone she meets. That day, however , there was a look of deep care upon her face.

“Abbey, I can see by your face you are fretful, what’s up?” I asked.

“Is it that visible, Dr. Bob? I thought I hid it pretty well. I feel like I am about to be assaulted.”

“Assaulted?” I said in fright. “What is going on?”

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“I know that we are all connected in the Cosmic Soup we call the Universe. But sometimes it feels as though when I am connected to everyone, I am vulnerable to everyone. That anyone at any time can just overwhelm me and take from me … myself. Does that make any sense?”

“Well, it sure does, Abbey. I just never expected to hear it from you. I think you might misunderstand the connectedness we all have.”

We talked about the fact that there really is no separation between anything and anything else in the universe. We are taught, however, that we must be on our own. That we must make it by ourselves. But, really, the Universe is One, just as the term universe implies.

So all of our strengths and weaknesses are open to any who would look deeply enough. We are what we are and that is out there for all to see. It makes one feel vulnerable if misunderstood.

This is one of the paradoxes of human beings (and all else in the Universe, just less so with less conscious entities). That is, we are one so the Universe knows all our strengths and all our weak points. Because something knows all our fallible spots, we feel vulnerable to attacks there. Even beyond that, though, the Universe knows all our strengths as well.

If you feel that your strengths are not as strong as they ought to be, you can feel assailable even at those locations. You then feel caught like an open-faced sandwich, ready to be devoured.

“Well, if I misunderstand what connectedness is, Dr. Bob, explain how it actually is, please,” Abbey said.

You are connected to the Universe and all else that is in it. But it is not as if you are dangling in a strong and violent wind, likely to be struck by debris that is carried on those hostile air currents. You are protected.

First, you are protected because others have to deliberately and consciously make the connection with the Universe as you have. Most people, 99%, do not. They seem to be content to muddle along believing they are each separate from all others and all other things. (They are to be pitied in that state. In compassion we need to try, gently, to lead them to see their connectedness.)

So those folks will not see you as vulnerable. They will see you as separate and private just as they feel themselves to be.

Second, and much more importantly, the Universe does not give up its confidential knowledge casually.

“Take your own situation, Abbey. The only way I knew you were having trouble with this idea was because you came to my office and told me about it. I would never have known otherwise. In other words, you, Abbey, get to allow yourself to be vulnerable when you choose.”

“I can still be as private as I wish? But doesn’t that sort of violate the whole principle of being in connection with everything else?” Abbey asked.

“Well, no, it does not violate anything. It is your privilege, or not, to share who you are. The Universe does not force you to do so.”

“I make the determination as to when and if I want others to known who I am? I can make myself as vulnerable, or not, as I wish.”

“Yes, but the Universe still knows you fully, Abbey,” said I. “And, by the way, accepts you fully just as you are, strengths and weaknesses.”

Her face a returned to that pixie like flavor she usually wore. “I no longer feel like I am going to be attacked at any minute, Thanks, Dr. Bob.”

With that she popped back out the office door.

You are only as vulnerable as you wish to make yourself with regard to any other conscious entity. You need only remember that the Universe, the Cosmic Consciousness knows you just as you are. It will never attack you. On the contrary, it will only support you at all times.

Beginning in this moment, live your life as if you are connected to all things and people. But know also that you are only as vulnerable as you wish to be.

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