The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

The meaning of your life, which is to be happy, is a work in progress.

I still slip up and fall, sometimes quite heavily, on my proverbial rump. I am not the way I want to be, yet. I argue with my wife when it is not necessary. I get angry too often. I still lack the compassion for others I want to have.

How about you? Are you where you want to be yet? Have you slipped up recently, to your own embarrassment?

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We both need to keep in mind that we are works in progress. My work is not finished. Your work is not complete. Unless you have reached complete and total enlightenment, you are yet a being-in-progress.

Everyone who thinks they have arrived at the total of … something, is mistaken. Yes, some individuals, perhaps Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth, have reached complete enlightenment. But I have not and I am all too well aware of it.

You need to be aware of it as well. Yes, definitely you can find meaning almost immediately by a relationship with the Source of All That Is. When you find you are unconditionally and eternally loved and accepted just as you are, you will find meaning.

From that meaning you discover your purpose which is to experience on behalf of the Source of All That Is. You experience in rapport with everything and everyone you come across. Some of those affiliations are deep and some are shallow.

But each liaison reinforces the purpose of your life. Its pathway shows the following mile-markers: meaning – purpose – happiness; or sometimes meaning – happiness – purpose. When you reach the mile-markers of meaning and purpose, you will quickly find yourself at the “happy” milepost.

But continuing down the path, along the way, you blunder. We all do. You cannot and need not expect yourself to be perfectly enlightened in one lifetime. Rejoice in the capacity you have developed thus far. Time enough to gain more.

Time enough? You have all your future lifetimes ahead of you. In each one you will grow even closer to total enlightenment. There is no hurry.

As a matter of fact, hurry may be the enemy of enlightenment. You can possess meaning and happiness, greater than you had, beginning almost immediately. This is done through meditative contact with the Source of All That Is. But enlightenment will come to you when it will.

Trying to quicken the pace of enlightenment by force will not make it arrive any earlier. Awakening comes to you when it is ready – when it knows you are ready. Yes, it could be done in a lifetime. But the masters through ages have declared that it may take many life times to fully achieve enlightenment.

So, you are a work in progress. You will indeed be happier than you have been beginning right now as you make and keep association with the Source of All That Is. You will remain a work in progress.

In that you very much need to rejoice for you have begun. You may already understand that “begun is half done.” Beginning is the most difficult part of any journey. To develop the will and determination to start down any new road is a significant achievement in and for your life.

Be not discouraged when you stumble. The stumbles are part of the process and, therefore, part of the progress. Without the mistakes you would be lulled into the false sense that you have achieved all. When you realize you have not yet summited, you can add the continuing effort you need to reach your goal of complete enlightenment.

Welcome the challenges as you welcome all else that occurs in your life and mind on the track. They keep you hungry for the end.

Allow yourself to be a work in progress. Knowing that you are working and progressing is great reinforcement in your meaning and happiness. Progress – more – beginning today.

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