Soul Searching Begins

What is important to you in life? What is life all about? Why are you here? There are so many questions that we ask about life and our place in it that I thought it was time for some answers. These great questions will help you understand your thoughts in this area. I have tried to answer each according to my conscience. Only you can answer these 25 questions for yourself.  

1. Is there a grand scheme of things?

I believe that there is a grand plan. We are all filling our part in this plan. You may be wondering where you fit, but sometimes it isn’t easy to see your part when you are involved personally in the tasks at hand. You are a valuable player in this game of life, and others depend on your behaviors, positive or negative, to get where they need to go.

2.Are we born with a destiny to fulfill?

I think that we are all born with a potential for greatness, and you have the potential to be tremendous and experience excellence.  Whether you do or do not fulfill your destiny is where your choices of development come.  I think that I have a question about this. No matter what road we choose to take, will we end up in the same place in the end? Nobody can know the answer to this. However, that is what makes life interesting.

3. If so, what’s the use of forcing certain things we think should happen to happen?

Have you ever forced something and had success? I know that I have forced things I thought were good for me, and they turned out not to be very good for me at all.  We are not always the best judge of what is best.  All we can do is make choices and live with the results. There was a pretty resounding and clear answer when I had forced things that I shouldn’t do. It can also be painful. We should all take actions toward our goals because actions are the catalyst for anything, but lose your attachment to the results.

4.  If all things come at the right time, why do we constantly worry about the future?

Worry is just thoughts we have that make us feel like we are involved in the decision-making process. Some people think like worrying will keep away all results that are perceived as unfavorable. Some people believe worrying will prevent them from being disappointed.  All you can do is live your life, worry if you want, but it won’t do any good.  I think all things do come at the exact right time, and it is just that the clock is not run by what is easiest for us. It is best, sometimes hard lessons are best, and that can hurt, but it is always a choice to respond to any event.  Worry if you want to, but I have found worrying a waste of time.

5. And what do we do during the intervals while we wait for those predestined things to occur?

Live your life. Live your life. Live your life.  Enjoy what is happening. Why look ahead. Because you may feel you have a destiny ten years from now, who knows how long you have? Enjoy today. If you are looking ahead to find your future, you miss the fate right in front of you today!

6.  Am I just wasting my time in seeking my purpose?

I don’t know are you wasting your time? Do you think you have control over it? You don’t. Birds gotta fly, fish swim, and you have to look for your purpose. I do not have the insight to tell you what will happen, but the growth you have experienced and your influence on others is indeed a good thing, so how could that be a waste of time. Change is inevitable, and if you weren’t changing one way, you would be changing another.  Nothing is a waste of time unless you decide it is.

7. Do we even have a purpose? If so, Do you find your purpose, or do you create it?

I think we all have a purpose. Does it matter if you create it or you find it? It is there, like a mountain, it is there, it doesn’t matter how it got there, does it? It is there for you to enjoy, climb on and adventure on.  Do what your heart tells you. Your purpose will become evident. If it feels right, do it; if it doesn’t feel good, don’t do it.

8.If you’re supposed to find it, how do you go about it?

Live your life. Please do what you can; it will find you. When you do something that fuels your fire, pursue it and accept the results that come. Trust that the experience will provide you with the lessons and value that you need. Without being aware, soon, your purpose will be evident.

9.  If you’re supposed to create it, how do you go about it?

Live your life. Do what you can. It will find you. Be creative in any way that you can because creativity is the doorway to creation.  It connects you to your true self and allows you to see a more significant piece of the puzzle. So draw, paint, write, think, tell stories, invent, experiment, or do whatever gets your interest.

10.  Is there a Universal Force, a Great Creator, a Divine Source?  Or, is it just us Humans of skin and bone?

I have never been surer of anything in my existence. There is a force greater than ourselves.  If you have become aware, you know this to be true as you feel your way through your life. This is the power that connects us and allows us to create unique and powerful human beings.  Our vehicle for this adventure is the human body, and it should be valued, but our identity is not our body.  If you were born into another body, wouldn’t you still be you?

Skin and bones, dust to dust, the body are temporary; your soul is eternal. If it is not, how come we do not age on the inside? We don’t.  I feel the same in mind and spirit as I did when I was young.  I have more experience in life, but I do not think differently. Do you?

11.Is there really something spiritual about us, and what about Mother Earth?

There is something spiritual about the world, and you can feel it anytime you get out into a natural setting.  All living things have energy, and the power of one thing will affect the point of another thing.  Those who neglect this connection miss out.

12.  Or, am I kidding myself by not facing the cold, hard facts that this is it, this is our reality.

What is this? What reality are you afraid of? Working? Living life? Your truth is precisely what you accept it to be.  You can choose to be spiritual or not be spiritual. You can get the world as you see it, birth, school, work, death. Or as something more. I choose something more. It doesn’t mean life has no moments of learning, or work, or sadness, but they do not come on a schedule, and they can’t be planned. Learning happens each day.  Are you kidding yourself? Only you can answer that question. Knowing you, I doubt it very much.

13.  Are we a soul living inside a temporary body?

As I answered above, yes, we are. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. All people are connected, and through cooperation, this becomes evident.

14.  Are we eternal? Or, does it all end once you’re buried 6 feet under?

I think we are eternal. Yet, of course, we can never be sure. We will find out in the end, and that is a part of the mystery of life.  I am not worried about if I am wrong because what difference does it make?  Would you live life differently day-to-day? Most people wouldn’t.

15. Are we all the same?

We are all connected, and from the same, I think. My experience is different from yours, and we may have different backgrounds and speak other languages or be of different ages. Yet, there are many things the same.  We each have a mind, heart, and soul.  So does everyone else out there.  Inside, we are quite the same, I can relate and understand your experience, and you can appreciate mine if you try.

16. Are we all connected?

We are all unique but connected, I think. There is no separation between you and me or you and anyone else in the world. That is why I believe it is essential to see all people with a kind heart and soft eyes. No matter what their position in life, they are simply another version of you.  If you were born in different circumstances or experienced other things, who knows what you would have done?  Be kind and look for the human connection between all of us.

17. If so, then why do I feel so separate?

Why do you feel so separate? Do you try to connect with others? Since I think that each of us is connected, it must be a choice to feel distinct.  Maybe you need to have the experience that you are alone, who knows. Ten years from now, you will have a different answer, I think.

It is an illusion of separateness that we accept as accurate. We look at ourselves as islands of experience, unique to us, but we are connected, and all people have a similar core. Look at people as a connected part of you, and they will be. Or continue to see the illusion of being separate. The choice is yours.

18. Is there no magic in us?

There is magic in everyone. Unique and powerful spell.  Look at all of the things that have already come from your life.  You have created unique and mighty things, and I have benefited from them. No magic? What are you looking for? Magic beans? You have provided plenty of charm already, and you are just getting started. There is a future of magic and wonder coming for you and from you.  Why else would you be asking all of these questions?

19. Are we just a brain, with arms, and legs?

I think we are much,  much more. Some people lack arms or legs and still have a divine spark of creation that makes them think and feel like anyone with all their body parts.  There is a divinity involved in the human experience. You, my friend are an example of this.

20. Is there a calling?

I don’t know. Do you feel like you were called? I think there is being yourself, and that is a calling.  You are looking for answers to questions that deep down you already know the answers to.

21. Is the voice I’m hearing someone’s other than my own?

What does it matter? There is a dialogue in each of us. We ask questions continually, and someone answers. Is it God, is it us, or is it a combination of both? Again I wonder if it matters. We are who we are.  The dialogue in our head is ours and can add a lot of clarity to our actions if we take the time to listen.

22. Or am I just a raving lunatic talking to myself?

Yes, you are a raving lunatic. Suppose that is what you think. I do not believe so because having questions is a natural part of life, and most people don’t get to the point that they even know there are any questions, let alone the answers to them.

23.Intuition or Institutional?

Do what you feel is the right thing. If you end up in a small room with no windows, you will have your answer. If you don’t, you will also have your answer.  We are all in control of our own destiny, through the choices we make every day and the beliefs we accept, because of our programming.

24.Spiritual: creative, connected, enlightened, eternal beings?Or Physical: material, logical, moral, uninspired things?

Yes

25.Are you a spiritual being?

Yes, I believe in God, a higher power, the Universe, whatever name you are comfortable with because there are certain things that are difficult to understand any other way. I am not a fan of organized religion. When you put yourself against someone else, calling your beliefs the “only way”, or you are going the wrong way. These organizations work to divide people, and this divisiveness has led to some of the greatest atrocities in history.  I prefer to focus on the values which are true in all religions, honor, honesty, kindness, character, treat others as you would be treated, and all positive moral codes.

If religion is your thing, I support that but refuse to have my ship driven by your beliefs.  I will continue to believe what I feel is right based on experience and you can follow whatever dogma makes your life seem complete.  I will just say simply, do good things, not bad things and we will all be OK.