Searching for The Meaning of LifeWritten by Halina Goldstein
Searching for The Meaning of Life ====================================== A member of Self Improvement Zone asked me other day: "How is it that we can know what is good for us, yet we don't seem to be able to make a practice out of anything? I go from one author, book, concept, idea to another, thinking one day I will find answer, and I will no longer have to look. I have enough books to open a bookstore. Is there any one thing you can recommend? Or are we mostly all doing same thing?? Searching... with no one right answer." Oh, who am I to answer that... I met a man once, who at some point lost everything that was home to him, and so he went into a deep emotional crisis. He started asking himself: What's point? What's meaning of life? He ended up saying: "Life has meaning we think it has". The meaning of life is a choice. It's not a fixed answer. It sounds right to me. I always come back to this one. The right answer is what you believe it is. The world is what you believe it is. Your path in life is what you believe it is. "But I don't know what it is for God's sake! I don't know what to believe!" you say (or yell? :-)) Even if we don't know, there is a frustration. Meaning, you feel you should know. You want to know. You need to know. Maybe it's like walking around a strange town, trying to find a home. You try this street and that street, and you're almost there you think, but then again no. After all, you hardly know what you're looking for... You have a feeling, but you don't know what it is.
| | God's Name ... Creation and undoing!Written by Edward B. Toupin
Over past number of years, while going through my studies and research, information and answers come to surface that are most astounding. I have come to understand things differently than I was taught in years of Catholic schooling. Although, I still believe in "bigger picture" and "something greater", it has taken on a different tone and context. It has turned from a fearful system of faith to a confident system of knowledge and thought.One of many things I've thought about, as you can see from previous writings, is existence of a single being or god --- God for many religions. Indeed, belief of having a singular being encapsulate all of wonders of Universe makes it much easier to live with unanswered questions that we're all taught to accept in faith through fear-based religions. But, although I stray, my research and questions always come back to fact that there is one, singular being that does encapsulate these wonders --- it is individual human being and their soul. The soul is wonder within us that we all tend to seek outside of ourselves. We're always looking for these "great answers" from a greater being when answers reside within. However, this brings up an interesting myth I had heard some years ago. It is said that God that so many religions worship has a name that is not known to human-kind. The story notes that, in beginning, to initiate creation of Universe, God's "true name" was spoken. However, if God's true name is spoken in reverse, it will undo all of creation.
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