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The Mean of Life: To be Happy and All Deserve Happiness

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

All Deserve Happiness

The meaning of life, to be happy, is available to all. Many times while observing the conversations on Twitter, I come across people who say they do not deserve happiness. By fuzzy logic I say, we all deserve happiness or none of us does.

Can you really say that some one does not deserves happiness? (Watch out, now, I switched directions while you weren’t looking.) Can anyone in their right mind say that some other person does not deserve happiness? No. No one can say that, because no one knows the exact circumstances that led that person to where he or she is right now. Sure, sure, we may dislike the person, terribly dislike them, even hate them. But any reasonable person will know that you cannot say the other does not deserve happiness.

Why can’t that be said? Because then the same may be said about you. For example, I know that I have psychological enemies. There are people who do not like me or what I say. Some will be vehemently opposed. But just because they dislike me does not mean they can claim that I do not deserve happiness. Moreover, they cannot keep me from being happy on the inside, at the core of my spirit, or being. This is where happiness actually and truly resides.

Look at Nelson Mandela: 27 years imprisoned by an opposing government. Yet, when freed from prison he lead a movement of reconciliation. No one is capable of such magnanimity without happiness at the core of their being. An oppressive government sought to rob him of his happiness by imprisonment. That robbery never took place; Mandela kept it in his core.

So all of us deserve happiness because we cannot say that so-and-so does not deserve happiness.

I know, I know, this is a long road for a short trip. But I cannot say that even the worst criminal does not deserve happiness at the core of his or her life. Oh, yes, do not mistake me, they must be held accountable for their crime. Due punishment must be meted out under the laws of the land. (Lest anyone wonder, I am NOT speaking about Nelson Mandela here.) But if this criminal will look inside and connect with The Cosmic Consciousness, and through that connection, find happiness, I cannot deny it to them. First, I do not have such power. Second, I am not the one who grants happiness, The Cosmic Consciousness does.

I believe every sentient being deserves happiness. Happiness of the sort that comes through the connection to and with The Cosmic Consciousness. Bliss. All deserve happiness or none do. The meaning of life is happiness. Grant to yourself that deservedness. Grant to everyone else the same.

And I invite you to pick up more info about deservedness. Sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. Pick out the one that says “All The Best – You Deserve It,” or any or all of the other freebies. 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.

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The Meaning of Life: To Be Happy and What Did I Do to Deserve This?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The meaning of life and to be happy have something to do with karma. Karma is simply, yet completely, defined as “the effects of one’s actions.” Like 2 + 2 = 5. Or like when you open a window and the breeze blows in. Yes, I deliberately chose illustrations that are innocent. Because karma does not always bring bad consequences.

Further, karma is not punishment for something you have done or not done. You must see this. It is simply the effects of one’s actions. When something bad happens to you, it may be, I repeat, may be caused by something you did. But it is in no way punishment. Nor is it, then, reward for something you have done right. It is like blowing out the flame on a burning candle. You blow air out your lungs toward the flame and if the air volume is sufficient and forceful enough, the flame is extinguished.

That does not mean, however, that someone else cannot inflict pain upon you. Because that pain is inflicted does not necessarily mean you have done anything wrong. People are free. They will do what they want. Sometimes people do bad things. The hurt you feel from such events may not have been caused by what you did or did not do.

So, you have got to live with the consequences, effects, of what you do or say. That’s karma. But when you feel hurt it does not mean, absolutely, you have done anything to deserve that pain.

There are those who say that the effects of what we do can be carried over several or many lifetimes to be worked out. In other words, one could have done something so heinous in another life that the effects of that act are still being worked out in this life. And maybe it takes more than one lifetime to work them through.

What I say is this: You deserve the best. You are a child of The Creative Spirit; you are spirit yourself. As such all the best is yours, as long as you don’t stand in the way of it. When pain comes your way, as it does for all of us, you haven’t inescapably done something to cause it. Yes, it could be the working out of the effects of some past behavior of yours. Or, it could be that some free human being has caused this pain.

Don’t automatically assume you deserve hurt. DO assume the you deserve the best. The effects of your actions will work themselves out. But the affliction you feel at any moment is not inescapably of your doing.

The meaning of life, to be happy, has to do with accepting that you deserve the very best. Which you do. Believe it. Live it.

And I invite you to pick up more info about deservedness. Sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. Pick out the one that says “All The Best – You Deserve It,” or any or all of the other freebies. 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.

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The Meaning of Life: To Be Happy and God’s Role in Your Happiness

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The Meaning of Life and Cosmic ConsciousnessRegarding the meaning of life and happiness, C. S. Lewis said, “God can’t give us happiness and peace apart from himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

First, I think, we need to unpack the word “God.” Some of you reading this post will have no baggage to be carried around about the word “god.” However, others of you may have tremendous bags, loaded with all kinds of meaning: good, bad, indifferent.

Let me develop a singular definition of God for this post, so we are all on the same page at least for this post. God for me is the Cosmic, Universal Consciousness that is the Universe we live in. God is neither male nor female, does not make judgements, loves us all equally, supports and sustains life through unconditionally love. God’s main reason for bringing us into existence is that we might experience on God’s behave. God knows Itself through our experiences. For short, I’ll call God in this post, the Cosmic Consciousness.

Then, I can say that I believe that God can’t have us find happiness unless It, God, is involved. This doesn’t mean that the Cosmic Consciousness imposes Its will upon us. Rather, it means that the invitation to happiness is always open as we find our connection, our bond, with the Cosmic Consciousness. As C. S. Lewis put it, there is no such thing as happiness apart from the Cosmic Consciousness.Vibration

Why? Because the Universe is One harmonious entity. Happiness, after all, might be defined as being in complete harmony with oneself. Peace might be defined in precisely the same way – complete harmony within oneself. Complete Harmony is achieved when you resonate with the Cosmic Consciousness. Indeed, quantum physics shows us that all is vibration, literally. Some vibrations are at such a rate that we can see them. But we know there are other vibrations which we cannot see: infrared, x-ray, gamma ray, etc. Even the Earth, the planet upon which we live, have its own unique vibrational identity. To resonate with these frequencies is to set up or generate sympathetic vibes. To be in tune.

When God is defined as unconditional love, then when we would find unconditional love, know unconditional love, we will set ourselves to vibrating at the same frequencies as the Cosmic Consciousness. In other words, happiness is impossible without bond between the Cosmic Consciousness and yourself. This is not to arbitrary; this is not a demand with an “or else” attached to it. This is an invitation to join the on-going, everlasting party!

You can’t be happy unless you include the Cosmic Consciousness. You will be happy, now and always, when your voluntary bond with the Cosmic Consciousness is secured and steadfast from you side. The meaning of life which is to be happy, consists fully of sympathetic vibration with the Cosmic Consciousness.

And I invite you to pick up more info about the Cosmic Consciousness.” Sign up for Free Instant Access to some of my Force-Source-Resources. One of which is titled, “Two Free Life Phrases for Self Development ‘I Am My True Self’ and ‘I am Conscious’.” 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.

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