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Yet, some religious organizations are complaining about the increased secularization of society. That means that people are turning away from the religious organizations and trying to run their own lives. I say hurray! I say this, hurray, from one who spent his entire adult life, from age 18 until retirement at 61, being responsible to see that folks knew and followed what my religious organization taught. I still remember the day when a woman come to me after a worship service of that organization and said, “You got to tell me what to do. I’ve always relied on the church to do that.” I told her I would not do that. But I could help her find her own way. She was visibly upset with my reply. Shortly, she left the particular religious organization I served.

My point is this: it is time for all humans to begin to make up their own minds. I know that some do not want to do that. Many, maybe even a majority, still want someone else to tell them what to do. I believe people need to decide for themselves.

If people do this, some will say, there will be religious anarchy. There is now. Some will say that people won’t behave if there are no threats of hell. (Threats of hell were deliberately used over the centuries to have people be kept in line.) We have got to come into a new age where people decide for themselves to behave, whatever that means, because it is the best for them to do for themselves. I behave well because that will get me the best for myself.

When you have found happiness within by being in contact with the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe, which is the meaning of life, you will, naturally, want to fulfill that happiness in the world. Find you bliss within and beam that bliss into the world. What do you think would happen if everyone started trying to do this? I think that peace would break out on the earth. I think that sanity would break out on the earth. I think that conservation of all species on this planet would break out. I think that we would have a far, far better chance of surviving the next 100 years as the species we name human.

So, I say, hurray! For the great secularization of society. Let people choose for themselves as they are taught the consequences of their own actions. Let us drift away from religions that tell us we have to do it this way or go to hell. Nonsense. Let us drift toward ideas that teach us we are responsible for our own actions and their consequences. But this is not new with me. Such has been taught and demonstrated for thousands of years.

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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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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.

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