“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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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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It means you find happiness.

Which consists knowing that you deserve to be happy. I would even say you are entitled to happiness. Happiness is your God-given connection to the Source. It is already built into you.

When you understand that you deserve happiness through connection to the Source, then you know that you may love yourself and others. The Source is All. If The Source is All, then The Source is in you and you are in The Source.

This notion, being eternally connected with The All, gives you self-esteem, when you accept it. But please see I said “accept” it. You do not need to do or be anything extraordinary to esteem yourself. You are a piece of The All – esteem enough for anybody. Just accept it.

From this self-esteem you may develop a positive attitude. If The Source Is All, then The Source supports All. You are supported in everything you do. In this support, then, you may know that All works for your benefit. Who can not have a positive attitude when The All is affirming you?

But, of course, you live in a world that is dynamic. In other words, you are constantly interacting with it. So what does happiness have to do with you interacting in the world? As you are happy from the inside, you beam out that happiness into the world. What you are, is what you’ll get. Who you are inside is who you’ll be on the outside. You beam positivity into the world from your inner core of happiness.

All this comes back around to you in an endless cycle of benevolence. Some name this cycle Karma. You will see and feel this affection when you will look for it. Even looking for it in the midst of tragedies.

Even better than my words here are the “laws” of quantum physics. In other words, I now take this out of opinion and place it in the more substantive world of science. The Universe seeks Harmony. Harmony can be another word for Love. Harmony can be another word for Resonance. When you resonate with the Universe through harmony, happiness, you have placed yourself within sympathetic vibrations, which support you. This harmony gives foundation to happiness, for happiness is harmony. As you beam your bliss into the Universe, it resonates with you and returns the favor over and over again.

The meaning of life is to be happy and that happiness includes the above mentioned extras.

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