The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

Once there was man who thought he knew the meaning of life. He wanted to be happy. He had gathered all sorts of worldly possessions. He had a great family. Many loyal friends. An excellent job. He felt fine for quite sometime with all these.

Then, he began to feel shallow. He realized he was like a cartoon character who had an outline of a body. But all anyone else could see was the white paper behind his personal frame.

When he realized this, that he was empty, it did something to him. He found he had no basis for his life: for his family, job, friends, possessions. They somehow began to turn sour for him. He acted and spoke in such ways that all could perceive his shallowness. Before this, before he left himself empty, no one else saw it. But when he felt he was a superficial character, they believed him.

So, he began looking for the meaning of his life. What he discovered over some time of meditation and thinking was that he lacked happiness on the inside. He thought family, friends, job, possessions were his happiness. He learned there was nothing wrong or bad about any of those by themselves. They just were not where happiness was.

He discovered the meaning of life, to be happy, within himself when he made connection with The Source. In that connection he knew he was loved. Now, again, he thought he was set.

It was if his character had been colored in or filled in like a full-bodied cartoon person would be. He felt whole, complete. But his world lost all its color. His friends, family, job, and even possessions “looked” as if they had just become stick figures. What was wrong now, he wondered.

One day a friend needed help. The man reached out because of the happiness he felt inside and helped his friend. “Suddenly,” his friend was “filled-in.” The friend no longer appeared as the cartoon character he was before he was helped. The friend was fully-filled-out person.

This gave the man an idea. What if he, because of his inner happiness, did kind things for all he encountered? Not just humans and animals, but kind things “for” his job, his possessions? He discovered he felt even better when he used that inner power to encourage or enlarge others.

The idea gelled within his thinking: happiness is not just an inner thing. The meaning of life, to be happy, is also something that exists in action. Action itself is not happiness. But happiness without action, beaming your bliss into the world, is not a complete picture. To be fully realized, the meaning of life, to be happy, propels effort in the world. Happiness is not all heart, hand must be involved as well.

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