If you do not know the meaning of life, do not worry, just live it, for this is the way to give life meaning. Knowing the meaning of life is not crucial to living it. Learn to get in touch with the serenity within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, even if at first the purpose is hidden. Even if you do not know what the purpose is immediately, in your serenity you will find it and by doing so, discover your own. The purpose of life is not that a thing has a function but that it has a meaning, a meaning that inspires you to capture the impulse of life and have it burn within you, conscious and awake, for ever.
You will find, if you are willing, that you carry not just the questions about life but the answers inside you. You will find that profound serenity, which is understanding and acceptance, is all around you: in your home, at your place of employment, on the way to work, in the shower, in your garden and even in a time of conflict or hardship.
Serenity lives as a life force in all things, in a flower, rock, in the very atoms that make matter. It dwells in time, space and in all dimensions.
Serenity dwells within those whom you love and those whom you hate. In the presence of serenity, your soul finds the path to a clearer light, and all things that seem elusive or deceptive are reduced to the shining clarity of extreme gentleness.
Life is a fleeting and sometimes difficult search for meaning, serenity and understanding. Go with serenity in the discovery of your dreams. Live the life you have had the courage to dream of.
And know that in your search for meaning, as you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will become simpler in how they influence you and in what you understand about them.
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. The challenge is to be serenely objective toward oneself and serenely subjective toward all others. The person who can stand alone in the world, only taking counsel from their conscience, lives in a natural state of serenity.
This aspect of serenity directs each of us to the deepest experience of life, an experience that gathers us up and smoothes out our fears, showing us the very consciousness that makes us. Life becomes our friend, and we know finally, once and for all, that life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. Life has its own hidden forces, which you can only discover by living.
'The Tibetan Art of Serenity'
Christopher Hansard
Salam,
Cherine
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