The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

I have two grand daughters. Coming from two different gene pools, one is a little shorter than average, the other is some taller than the average.

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I have two grand daughters. Coming from two different gene pools, one is a little shorter than average, the other is some taller than the average. Because they now live in the same household, this disparity is a source of friction between them. The short one complains that she is too short. The taller one complains that she is too tall. The tall one lords it over the short one claiming, in essence, that tall is better than short. They are both teens to make it worse. It’s complicated.

We adults know that height, by itself, means nothing. There are advantages to being short or average. There are advantages to being tall. Tallness sometimes commands respect, as it did in the case of George Washington. But the average person can find much more easily clothes that fit. Why? Of course, most people are average – that’s why it’s called average.

But my point is deeper. We humans tend to measure everything from ourselves to our vehicles to our pets. Measurement is convenient as it helps us buy clothes that fit, tires that are proper for our vehicle and collars that aren’t too loose or too tight for our dogs. In terms of meaning and worth, measurement is useless. It is an illusion. If you take you height, for example, as an example of your worth, you are deceiving yourself. If you attach value to the measurement of anything, just for the sake of size or lack thereof, you are betraying yourself.

Indeed, measurement can be a dangerous illusion. A very big snake, for example, though it looks dangerous, may not be so at all to you, a human being. You may be just too big for it to swallow, so it avoids you. You need not fear. Yet a six inch snake with bright colors may be so cute you are tempted to pick it up. However, it may be so venomous as to fell a full grown elephant with a single bite. One might be afraid of the large snake that poses no danger, but avoid it because of its size. One might not be afraid of a brightly colored, tiny snake. However, if you reach for it, you might be dead within an hour.

It is our minds that attach value to anything that is measured. It is our minds that make measurement helpful or harmful, nothing more. If we consider being 6′ 6″ tall as a detriment, then it is for us. If we consider 5′ 6″ tall to be a detriment, it is.

This has to do with happiness because we are once again demonstrating that it is our minds that make the measure of a man, not the measurement itself. Size is an illusion. A pound of lead is not worth as much as an ounce of gold. But who gives it that worth? The person who observes the two different substances gives the worth. Yet a pound of cheese is worth more than that gold to a starving man who has the only choice of keeping the gold or staying alive by eating the cheese.

This power of illusion that the human mind possesses has far deeper ramifications. For now, let us confine ourselves to the meaning of life and being happy. You are not inferior if you are short; you are not superior if you are tall; you are not average if you are average height. What makes you anything is how you feel about anything. Those feelings come from the your core of being. Attached yourself to the Divine Consciousness through meditation-like exercises. There you will discover that your worth is in the fact that you are part of the Universal Consciousness. When you know this, measurement of anything does not matter to your worth. Your worth is attached permanently and unshakeably to the Universal Consciousness. Size is an illusion.

What counts for your happiness and the meaning of your life is your knowledge of your linkage to the Divine Consciousness. Start today to understand that measurement of any kind is irrelevant to your happiness, and therefore, to the meaning of your life.

Use measurement for the convenience it gives. But do not use that illusion as a “measure” of your worth. Instead, find the meaning of your life, to be happy, in your connection to the Divine Consciousness.

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