The Meaning of Life

- So many people in your world are thinking of the meaning of life all their lives but when life is ending, they find out that all their time has gone thinking about it; then the meaning of life was not realized. The meaning of life was present in every moment but those elements were left unlived because the individuals were focusing on the meaning of life all the time. Was one meant to be in this life a copy of the emperor of China when one would do great deeds, or was one meant to be something else? Was one meant to be something, and what was one meant to be? When people start thinking this way, they often want grand goals and want to be something like a copy of the emperor of China. This only tells that people are looking for self-esteem with the help of this kind of thinking because reality has disappeared. People do not want to see the reality; they want to improve their self-esteem through illusions. Self-esteem that is built like this does not exist, and every moment will show it in its own way, for life is like being on a seesaw which is swinging more or less all the time. The person is feeling inferior and is seeking more and more proofs that he is the incarnation of the emperor of China and has a grand mission ahead of him. The spirit world is testing him now but he will surely endure it and tomorrow, next week or maybe next year, his greatness will unfold. Everybody will see how he will do great deeds, change the structures of this world and will remain in history! It is escapism and going away from oneself all the time. What are great deeds? They are very often those deeds that you do without knowing that they are great deeds; often you are not even aware that you have done something. They are very real, for, in that very moment, you live in the truth with yourselves and therefore are not aware of having done something.

In your world, people are looking at things very much through intellect, when this kind of a paradox can be born. Actually it is not a paradox, for you can find it in your lives and in your thinking in various degrees. Reality lives in every moment. Again: learn from nature, for in nature, nothing tries to be the incarnation of the emperor of China! Everything simply is what it is and is only trying to realize its own existence, being exactly what it is. Nature surrenders completely to its own existence and this way fulfills its task; then you cannot think that in nature, this is useful and that is useless. Nature is a big entirety where every part has its own important meaning and where everything is interconnected all the time. It only expresses its existence all the time: life, love, all this. It simply is and performs its own task as a result of the interaction prevailing in nature, when life and balance remain in that state. As far as man is concerned, it is very much the same: the meaning is right there in the moment when man is living respecting his life and loving himself, giving to life what he can. You often cannot see it clearly because it is and expresses itself in this very moment; but in man himself, there is everything and when he surrenders to himself, he is open in the moment. Then he can see and receive possibilities from inside him and from outside, either as concrete tasks or as insights on the level of thought.

When you notice a person who, according to your norms, is outside of all life, you think that a life like that has no meaning. There he is, lying miserable in the gutter; why hasn't he taken care of his life? You cannot know for what purpose he has come here, for some have come merely to grow and growth can require many kind of things through which it can happen. There also are individuals who have come merely for others and have in this way taken a very heavy load to carry for the love for someone else. The intellect cannot comprehend anything clearly for, underneath everything, there is a mystery which cannot show itself in your world due to the limitations of matter. One can view things in many ways for it is easy to be in the place of the emperor of China admired by everyone and wielding power. Life is very clear then but a life like that does not require a strong spirit unlike living a life where you are criticized and rejected. Nothing is self-evident because the one that got to be the emperor of China can be a very weak spirit but as a spirit, he may have done something good and has in this life chosen idle time, as it were. Accordingly, a great spirit can live in difficult conditions without harming anyone, for he can be a spirit who is already leaving incarnations but has come to serve for love. The individual who came for love and looked for difficult conditions is representing a great, loving spirit who has a distinct and strong will. Looking through the eyes of man, we see a difficult and painful childhood which leads to the gutter and destruction at a very young age but if we view it from a different angle, we see the service included in his life-cycle during which he did not harm anyone.

If we think about individuals who have a lot of power, we can ask: how are they using this power? They may be great and strong spirits who have consciously chosen a holistic and life building task but they can also be little souls who are weak in spirit and who are aiming at power to support their self-image and to hide their feeling of inadequacy. A great and strong spirit can consciously choose difficult conditions because it is possible for it to survive them. Would you have been ready to consciously choose the life of Christ? Every journey is a conscious choice.

In societies based on the culture of power, the prevailing belief is that I am enough by being the best/most and being capable of everything in everything. But if in a society like this everyone could do it, a massive war would break out because the best would destroy each other trying to be the very best of them all. The whole social structure would fall apart, and people would drown in their waste, for then no one would do the lower rank work which would not be considered important.

You have to let everybody live their own lives, for you can never know why a person has come here. The fundamental purpose of someone else may be completely different to our purpose, so we can relinquish taking responsibility of our surroundings and take responsibility of ourselves. Then we will not judge anymore because we will not even judge ourselves but are only trying to live in that very moment.

Respect and love yourselves and accept yourselves! Be merciful to yourselves, to every moment and to every thought of yours because if you accept them, you can change them. Everything has a meaning, so think how you are treating yourselves. Create for yourselves thought patterns that will take you forward in your lives in ever increasing tolerance, charity and love. Do not judge yourselves or others anymore but live your lives and let others live theirs, respect yourselves and listen to yourselves, for you have in you all that you need. Try out how your own knowledge can serve you.