The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

Though some folks try to make happiness and meaning difficult, they are really quite simple. In my view the harder you try to make happiness and meaning happen, the more difficult they are to obtain.

Relax. Enjoy. Meaning and happiness will come easily to you.

They come easily when you adopt the following five paths.

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1. Develop a relationship with the Divine. The basis for meaning is spiritual. You cannot find happiness in the material.

Oh, yes, many things and events may help you feel joy or well-being. They are good things to have and good events in which to participate. Falling in love comes immediately to mind. What a joyous feeling it can be.

But happiness cannot rest upon the foundation of infatuation and lust, for each of those fade with time and exposure.

As you make and keep contact with the Divine through the meditative arts, you see into yourself, for that is where the Divine resides. You might say the connection is golden.

As you see into yourself, you see who you really are – a part of the entire Universe. You will discover that you are eternal. That you are needed. That without you the Universe could not exist as it is right now.

When you discover that you are accepted just as you are, without any conditions, you will know happiness. What greater knowledge could there be? What greater meaning could there be?

2. Maintain that relationship with the Divine. This is really easy. Take as little as ten minutes per day. Quietly contemplate (meditate about or pray about) something significant in your life. Or simply relax into quieting your mind.

Many westerners think that this must just too simple to be effective. Please let me assure you that its simplicity does not disqualify it. A single drop of water falling on a mountain once a minute will eventually wear that mountain down.

Use your contemplation time regularly. It does not really matter the time of day, nor the location of your quiet time. Simply do it. Make it part of your life.

3. Detach yourself from everything except the Divine. All right, here is the difficult part, if you wanted one. Detach yourself from all your problems, cares, relationships, future, etc.

Here is an example: Detach yourself from the out-comes of all your dealings with the world. Do your best to make them the best. Then mentally and spiritually step away from them. Let them come out as they will.

It is when you invest so much in the outcome of things and events that you generate the most pain – the least amount of happiness and meaning. Don’t give up planning or savings or learning or growing. Do give up attachment to the outcome.

Even in human relationships? Yes, most definitely in that area as well. When you try to control how any relationship will turn out, you will be disappointed from time to time.

Why? Because humans are not naturally good at letting things happen, including kinships. So, you try to control how so and so feels about you. This immediately creates a tension in the relationship. You want the other person to respond in a certain way. If they do not, you are at least disappointed.

But when you let go, detach, the relationship evolves as it will. Tension is dropped. Development naturally, spontaneously occurs. Both parties are far closer to well-being even in that relationship.

4. Share that happiness and meaning. When you feel happiness and know your meaning, you feel impelled to share those feelings. However, many people neglect this aspect of their spiritual health.

Happiness simply bubbles up and over. When you share that effervescence through kindness and compassion to all those around you, you reinforce your own happiness. More then froths up and you feel like sharing some more.

Around and around goes the euphonious cycle (as opposed to a vicious cycle).

You make the world a better place to be. You make your world a better place to be.

5. Repeat the above four steps. Here is where this positive happiness and meaning cycle usual fails for many people.

They think that once they have this feeling, it is like solid granite – lasts a long, long time.

Happiness and meaning will last eternally when you repeat the above four paths regularly. Nothing difficult in that. But if you neglect to give effort to the maintenance of meaning and happiness, they will cease to be in your life.

Just like a muscle that is not used, it will eventually atrophy. So bad will the atrophy become that the muscle may not ever function again.

Do not let that happen to you. Exercise spiritually as well as physically. Never let the tone of your spirituality falter.

There is, however, no sweat involved in spiritual muscle building. You just need to repeat the above four steps and you will ever remain strong in happiness and meaning.

Start today with a ten minute session of contemplation.

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Which means they are still in control of your happiness. Forgiveness favors you and your meaning and happiness.

Forgiveness allows you to set aside the hurt. I realize that the wounds can be so painful that you do not wish to let go. That’s where the problem enters.

When you cannot let go, your life is so attached that it is affected by that appendage. It would be like having a 50 pound weight duct-taped to your back. Everything you do will be impacted by the load.

Soon the burden, being so persistent and constant, would touch your mental and spiritual states. It would literally weigh you down.

How can you find the ability to forgive? Mind you, I am not taking your situation and the hurt done to you lightly. But if you want to forgive so YOU can get on with your life, how do you find it?

You discover it by going inside of yourself. I know – easy for me to say, but not so easy to do. Let us try together.

The seat of your life’s meaning and the happiness derived therefrom begins in your interior or spiritual life. You find the meaning of your life, which is to be happy, at the center of your being. There you make and keep contact with the Conscious Cosmos.

You find there in that connection that you are loved and accepted just as you are. No strings. No hidden agendas.

In other words, you are totally forgiven yourself. As a matter of fact, you are totally accepted no matter what you may do or not do. If you will, you can see it this way: You are totally forgiven even before you do or do not do anything.

(I know. That is not an easy concept to grasp.)

That does not mean that you can get away with anything. There is the idea of karma. Karma means that whatever you do, there will be a reaction. Do something good and good will come to you. Do something not so good and something not so good will come your way. This is not punishment, it is cause and effect.

So, while you are forgiven, there will be a reaction. Just so with the person who has hurt you. Their actions will cause reactions. This will get them their just compensation. What will come to them is in the hands of the Universe and or in the arena of the social justice system.

This takes vengeance out of your hands. Vengeance is subject to the law of karma as well. Allow the Conscious Cosmos to recompense the one who delivered the pain.

No matter what has happened to you, you can forgive because it does you the most good. And because whatever retribution is coming to the perpetrator is in another’s hands.

You keep your meaning, purpose and happiness intact. You release yourself from the hold non-forgiveness puts you in. It is self-inflicted slavery.

Therefore, find your connection to the Conscious Cosmos. Know that you are forgiven. Understand that karma is real and will affect the one who caused you pain.

When you have discovered these realities you have regained control of your own live. Forgive today.

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You were born to beam. So many folks think and act as if their lives are to be without meaning and without happiness.

Let me make this clear. You are free to choose what your life shall be. I am not trying to tell you that unless you do thus and such, your life is not worthwhile. Never.

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Whatever life you choose for yourself, it is of significance. The Universe has need of you.

But why not choose more happiness and meaning? Your were born to beam.

By that I mean you have been given a very special place in the Universe. The Cosmos cannot do without you. You may think otherwise, that the Universe can do without you. If you think that way, you are sadly mistaken.

You were born to experience on behalf of the Cosmos, the Mega-Consciousness. The Conscious Cosmos is One. As One it cannot experience for experience is always in relationship to something else. Hot and cold. Light and night. Sharp and dull.

You can and do experience all those dualities. From your experiencings your feed the knowledge base of the Conscious Cosmos.

You come to know you are of value to the Universe through the meditative arts. It is also in meditation that you find your meaning in life, which is to be happy. From meaning, happiness and purpose your life expands in such a way that it seems as if you actually beam your happiness into the substantive world.

Thus, by my logic, you were born to beam. How much you beam is up to you. Make no mistake, though – you beam to some degree in any case. How about choosing to beam better? That is, why not decide to be as happy as you possibly can be?

How does beaming affect your happiness? Simple. The more you beam, the more you reinforce your happiness. Happiness does not come from beaming, but beaming demonstrates happiness.

This is not demonstration to prove to others that you are happy and have meaning and purpose. You never need prove that you are happy to others. This is a demonstration for yourself.

It energizes your happiness. It puts your happiness into the world. When you have found purpose, meaning and happiness, it seems that they spill over into your corporal life.

How do you beam? By sharing your happiness with others. What does your friend need that you can supply? What does your neighbor require that you can help fulfill? What does the world want that you can supply?

Do you see? Beam as you were born to and you will increase your own happiness. The greater the beaming, the greater the actualizing of your life.

There is where your life is going – to actualization. If taken literally, you are making yourself actual. What does it mean to be actual?

It means you can understand yourself as real. That your life, words, actions, count for something. They do even if you do not set out to beam. Your life counts.

But how would you like to witness that it does? Of course you would. You witness your life as reckoning import by beaming your happiness into the world. You do that by serving others from the foundation of your life’s meaning and purpose.

Begin better beaming today.

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