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It is a good and radical question because so many ask it. My wife and I just got a bill for medical work. Her first reaction was, “How are we going to pay it?” It is a natural question. A real question. One everyone asks who has limited funds. That makes about 99% of us, then, doesn’t it. We just spent some money yesterday that might have helped with this bill. But that money is gone, used in good faith. It cannot be returned, as such. The companion question, then, always is, how will we do this in the future? The two questions are sides of the same coin. They concern themselves with tomorrow and yesterday.

Now, do not get me wrong. All of us need to be spend responsibly and plan for the possibility of a future. But we do not and cannot live in either place, neither past nor future. We live and can only live in the here and now. (You have heard that before, I am sure. But it is a truth that never wears out if taken seriously.)

So, we have got to do three things:

1. Yesterday is gone, learn its lessons and then forget it. There is nothing really that we can do about it. What is done, is done. To worry over what happened or what we did yesterday is a fool’s errand. Someday quantum physics may teach us to travel to the past and change things, reboot. But until that time comes, we have only today.

2. Do not sweat tomorrow, it never comes. Beyond reasonable planning for possibilities, chasing tomorrow and the “brighter day” you promise yourself it must be, it is another dupe’s gig. This is not being pessimistic. It is being realistic. We can “intention” all we want for tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes, it is today and we need to live in it. Don’t ever give up your “intentioning” but realize that you live in this moment only.

3. Make the best of today. If a bill comes that was unexpected, think about what you have in this moment. In this moment you cannot pay the bill. So, why worry about it? I am not asking you to be cavalier about your bills. I am saying, can you write a check today for the full amount? No. I can’t either. What are we to do? The best we can in this moment. Which is to do a little planning as to how it will be paid. Check with the creditor to see if it can be paid in installments. (I did, it can.) Then go on with what you can do today.

Today you cannot pay the bill in full. Drop the worry, then. Could you have prevented the bill from or through the past? No, of course not. Then don’t obsess over what caused the bill. The bill is, that’s all. Today can only be informed by yesterday, nothing more. Go on with what you can do today. Keep to that schedule. That is part of the meaning of life, to be happy; go on with what you can do today .

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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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