The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

The meaning of life, to be happy, means I need to be conscious of this next step I am taking.

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The meaning of life, to be happy, means I need to be conscious of this next step I am taking. One of the most difficult mental and spiritual activities I undertake is living in this moment. I know from years of study and more years of experience that this is the only moment I have. My entire life’s journey is contained in the step I take in this, the here and now. Every choice I made, every decision I accepted, culminates in this instant.

So I need to be taking as correct a step as I can. The only way to do that is to be conscious of what I am doing, saying, thinking in this moment. In the process that we call living, each activity I have done in the past leads to this moment. Every possible step I can take in the next moment is a collaboration of all that has occurred in my life from the past. But, neither the past nor the future exist for me in this moment, in this step.

It does not mean I am cut off from the flow of time. It means I have another example of the non-existence of time. For I am free to choose, in this moment, what I will do, given what I have done. Confusing? You bet.

Let’s try this: The past is gone as we measure time. The future has not yet come, as we measure time. What’s left? Of course, this moment. Only. So, everything I am or hope to be is contained here and now, only. Mentally you can see this as someone taking a strip of paper and cutting out a central section of it and discarding the two ends. What is left is now.

Therefore, you are unencumbered by the past, just as the piece of the strip of paper that represents the past is discarded. Similarly, you are unencumbered by the future; that piece of paper is gone as well. So, you make of what is left, this moment, just what you will. You can make it happy. You can make it meaningful. As long as you are conscious of what you are doing. You become conscious of what you are doing instantly by placing your attention on this moment only.

Yes, this is a tough concept to get your mind around. Yet it is so simple. Live in this moment. It is the only moment you have. Make it meaningful. Make it happy. Because you are unencumbered by past or future, you are totally free to make it whatever you want it to be. No matter what is happening in your world, you make this next step your entire life. For it is. And that is one of the insights into the meaning of life, to be happy.

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I have two grand daughters. Coming from two different gene pools, one is a little shorter than average, the other is some taller than the average.

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I have two grand daughters. Coming from two different gene pools, one is a little shorter than average, the other is some taller than the average. Because they now live in the same household, this disparity is a source of friction between them. The short one complains that she is too short. The taller one complains that she is too tall. The tall one lords it over the short one claiming, in essence, that tall is better than short. They are both teens to make it worse. It’s complicated.

We adults know that height, by itself, means nothing. There are advantages to being short or average. There are advantages to being tall. Tallness sometimes commands respect, as it did in the case of George Washington. But the average person can find much more easily clothes that fit. Why? Of course, most people are average – that’s why it’s called average.

But my point is deeper. We humans tend to measure everything from ourselves to our vehicles to our pets. Measurement is convenient as it helps us buy clothes that fit, tires that are proper for our vehicle and collars that aren’t too loose or too tight for our dogs. In terms of meaning and worth, measurement is useless. It is an illusion. If you take you height, for example, as an example of your worth, you are deceiving yourself. If you attach value to the measurement of anything, just for the sake of size or lack thereof, you are betraying yourself.

Indeed, measurement can be a dangerous illusion. A very big snake, for example, though it looks dangerous, may not be so at all to you, a human being. You may be just too big for it to swallow, so it avoids you. You need not fear. Yet a six inch snake with bright colors may be so cute you are tempted to pick it up. However, it may be so venomous as to fell a full grown elephant with a single bite. One might be afraid of the large snake that poses no danger, but avoid it because of its size. One might not be afraid of a brightly colored, tiny snake. However, if you reach for it, you might be dead within an hour.

It is our minds that attach value to anything that is measured. It is our minds that make measurement helpful or harmful, nothing more. If we consider being 6′ 6″ tall as a detriment, then it is for us. If we consider 5′ 6″ tall to be a detriment, it is.

This has to do with happiness because we are once again demonstrating that it is our minds that make the measure of a man, not the measurement itself. Size is an illusion. A pound of lead is not worth as much as an ounce of gold. But who gives it that worth? The person who observes the two different substances gives the worth. Yet a pound of cheese is worth more than that gold to a starving man who has the only choice of keeping the gold or staying alive by eating the cheese.

This power of illusion that the human mind possesses has far deeper ramifications. For now, let us confine ourselves to the meaning of life and being happy. You are not inferior if you are short; you are not superior if you are tall; you are not average if you are average height. What makes you anything is how you feel about anything. Those feelings come from the your core of being. Attached yourself to the Divine Consciousness through meditation-like exercises. There you will discover that your worth is in the fact that you are part of the Universal Consciousness. When you know this, measurement of anything does not matter to your worth. Your worth is attached permanently and unshakeably to the Universal Consciousness. Size is an illusion.

What counts for your happiness and the meaning of your life is your knowledge of your linkage to the Divine Consciousness. Start today to understand that measurement of any kind is irrelevant to your happiness, and therefore, to the meaning of your life.

Use measurement for the convenience it gives. But do not use that illusion as a “measure” of your worth. Instead, find the meaning of your life, to be happy, in your connection to the Divine Consciousness.

And I invite you to know a lot more about you and your happiness. Sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. Pick out the one that says Two Life Phrases for Self Development – “I Am My True Self” and “I Am Conscious” or any or all of the other freebies. Remember, one bit of information can give you a lifetime of actualization. Just click here and you’ll be on your way. I believe these resources will change your life.

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Shawna sort of bounced through the door to my office. Her blonde curls flouncing after her. She was maybe 27 or 28 at the time. Big smile on her facing while wearing a summer type dress of bright colors.

I thought to myself, she doesn’t present, that is, give off the vibe of having a problem. She settled herself primly in the interview chair. She chatted about the weather and how nice spring was moving along.

Then she came to her point. “Dr. Bob, I can’t figure out tomorrow. I know that sounds a bit strange. I think I’ve got this thing of living in the moment. But what if I want tomorrow to be different from today? How do I live in this moment and still make the next as I want it to be?”

I happen to have a ready answer for her. “You live now as if it will be your tomorrow. For your future is in your consciousness now. What you think and do, as you live in this moment, sets you up for what your tomorrow will be. Even sets you up for the next moment of your life.”

I had her think of the last time she was crying, either for sorrow or for joy. I showed that she just didn’t shut off the tears. They sort of had to run their course. Each moment one is in the act of crying, a certain emotional state is playing itself out. That emotional state cannot usually be turned off like a faucet. It takes time to subside.

Or like a runner who has just finished his race. He is gasping for breath and it takes time for his breathing to recover to normal.

But even more so in excited feelings. For in our consciousness tomorrow already exists. Now there is a full quantum insight to help explain this, but it was not necessary for Shawna. She wanted an answer to take with her within a few minutes, as most of us do. Suffice it to say that I showed that life is one continuous flow, though we can only really be in this moment. But whatever is happening in the flow of this moment, most often gets carried into the next.

So, be now what you want to be tomorrow. If you are down in this moment, resolve to change that by willing yourself, in this moment to be upbeat. If you are inattentive right now, decide right now to pay better attention and do so in this moment. If you are tired of mourning (feeling sad over a death) in this moment, determine to put away mourning right now. This kind of thing you do in each moment until your next moment, or your tomorrow, is the way you want it to be.

Shawna seemed to get the idea, especially after she suggested that is why kids can’t simply turn of the tears. They have worked themselves into a state and need time to change states.

I believe it is easy to make the connection between your consciousness and the future and being happy and knowing the meaning of your life. If you are not happy in this moment, you need to consciously do the things that will bring you happiness beginning now and continuing into the future. The future is already contained within your consciousness. You need only apply what you are aware of now with what you want to be aware in the next moment, or tomorrow.

And I invite you to know a lot more about your and your happiness. Sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. Pick out the one that says Two Life Phrases for Self Development – “I Am My True Self” and “I Am Conscious” or any or all of the other freebies. Remember, one bit of information can give you a lifetime of actualization. Just click here and you’ll be on your way. These resources will change your life.