The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

One of my readers wants to know the meaning of life and how to find his authentic self. This is a great inquiry because so many people have exactly that question. It may be framed in many different ways, but it all boils to: “How can I be real?” Or “How can I really be me?”

There can be no meaning in life if one does not feel real. Not some made-up character who performs for family and friends. But someone who has his/her own values, convictions and life style.

First, you’ve got to determine who you are really. So, I’ll give you my definition of who you really. “You are a child of the Universe, no less than stars.” You must realize that you are part and parcel of this Universe in which we live. Your atoms and other subatomic particles are the same as those of the stars all across the Universe. But more than substance, you are Spirit. Your spirit and the Spirit that is the Universe is you as well.

It is like being a player-coach (or player-manager). You not only direct the game but you are in the game as well. You decide to acquire and practice this role. Yes, you make a conscious decision to feel that you are in the Universe and also a part of the Universe. In a real sense, then, you are the Universe. This does not puff-you-up, though. When you realize how vast the Universe is, you know you need to remain humble. I did not say humiliated, I said “humble.” Which means you are unpretending, unpretentious.

Second, after you have made the decision to know your true place in the Universe, you seek confirmation. You do that through meditation wherein you become connected to the Divine Consciousness. Those of us, I, fortunately, count myself among them, who have made contact with the Divine Consciousness, have their minds, spirits, lives expanded to encompass the whole of the Universe. We are, for a time, lifted out of ourselves and “made to feel and see” the Oneness of all Creation. It is in the spiritual place that we find the meaning of life, to be happy.

Third, from this core of Oneness we experience our Bliss. As an authentic person, you project or beam this bliss into the world. Suppose you find your Bliss in connection with Supreme Consciousness. That Bliss gives you to see that you ought to be a mechanic. Or a musician, Or a teacher. Or a political leader. Please try to hear me and believe me when I say to you, that when you are at your Bliss, you will “see” who you really are and from that, what you really ought to do in the world. Bliss first, beam second is the true order of things, in my view.

Fourth, you will know you are on your bliss-beam-path, your authentic self, when you test everything you do and say, against what your bliss conveys you are. When you are going on the bliss-beam-path, what is authentic for you to do or say or be will resonate positively within you. You will feel this is right for you, in other words. It may even be a physical sensation in the torso of your body. A warm, pleasant vibration there that says, “everything is OK; everything is as it ought to be.”

Firth, this does not necessarily happen overnight. You’ve got to give yourself pace and patience and practice. Grow in meditation. Grow in finding your Bliss within. Grow in beaming that bliss to the substantive world.

Bliss-Beam Path

So, as you follow the above mentioned five items, you’ll be on your way to your authentic self. Actually, you will be carrying out your authentic self. Your authentic self is found through discovering the meaning of life, which is to be happy.

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The meaning of life is contained in the wings of a butterfly. Somewhere in South America a beautiful butterfly flutters its wings to go from one flower to the next. It flits about gaining its sustenance. The butterfly, just being itself, from its essence, its being, flies from one blossom to another seeking food. But in the course of flicking its wings, those wing-movements set up a vortex of minute power. Power enough, mind you, to propel the butterfly around the garden. So, just being what it is, the wing-vortexes of that butterfly set in motion the great winds of a hurricane. (This has been demonstrated theoretically.) In other words, one small gesture on the part of the butterfly fixed one the greatest forces in nature there is.

You, too, from who you are really, on the inside, put into motion all kinds of events that would not have happened had you not. Follow me now. You move your hand through the air. It seem a meaningless gesture. But you have set molecules of air in motion that would not have been had you not gestured thus. Perhaps you began a cool breeze that comforted the brow of sweating road worker. He surely needed that breeze at the precise moment.

Where the meaning of life is to be happy, think what positive forces you set in motion each time you do something from your positive outlook. When you are happy inside by being in connection to the Great Is, you beam your happiness to the world outside of you.

A smiling face comes from a smiling heart.

So, I declare to you, from this perspective anyway, that there is no hopelessness. You, individually, by yourself, can do something to affect real change in your world. You can begin with a smile beamed at all possible persons in all possible circumstances. (Certainly, a smile is not appropriate in every situation. That would be looney.) But in all possible circumstances. Therefore, you cannot be caught in false hopelessness. Because there is always something you can do.

The smallest kindness can set the whole world toward positive change. A random act of philanthropy can change the world. It is only when you perceive yourself as helpless in every circumstance, that you are. When you sense yourself as free to be able to affect a change, no matter how small, that you may indeed change the world. Just think of the butterfly in South American.

by Darius Baužys http://www.flickr.com/photos/darius_bauzys/ / CC BY 2.0

So, you need to get off your keister in the new year – 2010 – and begin to realize the positive power you have to impact your world. Tomorrow begins the new year, do something to change your world. On that first new year’s day and every additional day of the new year. You’ll be demonstrating for yourself and the entire world what it means to be happy as the meaning of life.

And I invite you pick up more info about the meaning of life and your happiness. I ask to you sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. One of which is titled, “How to Use the Spiritual Circuit to Be a Good Person.” Remember, one bit of information can give you a superior point of activation.  Just click here and you’ll be on your way. These resources will change your life. (Or, if it appears there, please sign up now in the upper right hand corner.)

I finally found the second half of an equation that goes right along with the meaning of life. Joseph Campbell, one who spent his life studying the myths of humankind, said, “Follow your bliss.” I’ve had this half of the equation for a number of years. But I thought that there must be more to it than that. For following one’s bliss is perfectly fine but I believe it must lead somewhere. So just yesterday it dawned on me as I was looking at the card on my wall that is titled Follow Your Bliss. Beam Your Bliss.
I mean one can gather up one’s bliss through contact with The Source of All That Is, finding a worthy vocation, finding a befitting life mate, etc. But if you’re like me, sitting in meditation, for example, is only half the story. I feel even more complete when I am sharing what I’ve discovered in meditation and through various other kinds of study. In other words, I need to experience what I’m feeling in and through meditation. I must get out of myself and share with the world.

This getting out of myself defines me and helps me be as The Source of All That Is in the Universe. The Source of All That Is is a spiritual being. In order to experience Itself, It had to go beyond the spiritual and experience. In order to do that The Source of All That Is put forth the Universe. You and I are part of the universe, essential parts. And in a figurative and literal way, The Source of All That Is beamed forth Its energy, Its vibrations to “make” the things we see. (This is well demonstrated in quantum physics.)
So you take what you are in Follow Your Bliss and Beam Your Bliss into the corporal world. In other words, what you are on the inside “becomes” what you are and/or what you do on the outside.

So I have the equation one side of which is Follow Your Bliss = Beam Your Bliss, the second side of the equation. Mathematicians might say that this is a balanced equation. I say it is one way to a balanced life wherein you hone, for yourself, the meaning of life.

(I apologize if you have read this blog before. A while back, I accidentally blow my blog off the Internet. Had to start all over again.)

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