Life has finally started to make sense to me! It’s taken me long enough time to actually write this down but some how out of all extreme pressure I have been under the last few years, I feel a sense of calmness within my SOUL and I know I’m on the right path! 🙏🏽
I have been working diligently on my “self-care” not just physically but deep intense spiritual work, psychological, nurturing and self reflecting. Has it been easy? That would be a NO! But what’s has come out of my work is a sense of calmness that I’m learning to enjoy and respect!
This might be an age thing? But mostly it’s a commitment to never ever give up on one self and never stop working on becoming a better human being!
What Makes Life Make Sense?
Here are some examples of how I’ve heard people describe those treasured instants where they experience the meaning of life:
– Everything seems to fall into place, and things – all things/everything – make sense.
– Instinctively knowing the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
– Being in “the Zone”, flow, a peak experience.
– All words disappear, and are replaced by beingness or presence.
– Feeling totally alive, and being alive feels wonderful.
– Unconditional love, coming from the inside.
– Unmitigated joy and happiness for no reason at all.
– Being at total peace, in a state of complete contentment.
– Just being here, now, or just being, period – it is enough to exist.
– All is right, all is as it should be.
– Like deep meditation, only wide awake.
– Oneness, all is one.
Obviously, the second one above, “Instinctively knowing the meaning of life, the universe and everything” is spot on, and I have talked to several people who have had this experience, just like I myself have had it (as well as most of the other experiences mentioned).
The problem is, that particular experience doesn’t last very long – in fact most or all of the above experiences have that tendency – and afterwards all we can remember of “the meaning of life” is that we knew what it was and that it was incredibly simple and obvious while at the same time allowing for near-infinite complexity.
(But, as it happens, that’s actually a fairly apt description of the meaning of life – even if it doesn’t tell us WHAT that meaning is).
What’s the meaning of life?
Meaning is an experience – of a state of being.
Meaning is about BEING.
• Being (existing, living, being alive, being consciously aware, being yourself, authenticity)
• Loving (feeling gratitude and love, loving others, loving yourself, loving life, and to some extent: being loved – and yes, good sex is included here, too*)
• Creating (writing, painting, dancing, singing, playing music, performing, inventing, building, etc.)
• Choosing (using free will, deciding, making our own decisions, autonomy, freedom)
• Growing (expanding who you are, learning new things and skills, being challenged, getting better)
• Helping (helping yourself and others, doing “good”, compassion, giving, doing your part)
• Fulfilling needs (fulfillment of survival needs, social needs and spiritual needs)
• Experiencing (basically what we spend our lives doing)
• Playing (a playful attitude, experimenting, trying out new things, having fun, humor)
• Being whole and in balance (unity, oneness, spiritual enlightenment, nirvana, harmony)
Now…Let’s Live Our Best Life! Or Die Trying! 😉
Ali
