It wastes as much energy to search for the meaning of life as it does
to live with abandon, walk on the edge celebrating an ecstatic life. The
underlying pulsating essence is the sublime intention to choose with no
regrets. Embracing the darker realities of life is as important as
enjoying the brighter ones.
Instead of dissipating your time and energy searching for the
elusive meaning of life, focus on the passion that excites you. As
Marshal stated “for primitive man space and heaven was the
uncontrollable mystery, for man in our technological age it is God and
the meaning of life, that occupies the same role. Men have never shied
away from experiment, stitching together myriad images of the
supernatural.
However belief that propels one into action need
not always be derived from a religion or scriptures, and contemplation
does not mean breaking away from reality, transcending flesh and bone.
Religion has encouraged an allergy of experiencing negative emotions by
emphasizing that faith and prayers will help. One of the selling points
of religions is to ask followers to have faith and hope, while
instilling the morbid fear of death & damnation in their hearts.
Trying to stamp out negativity whenever it pops up is counter
productive. Evolution from self absorption to the realization that life
is unpredictable - you learn as you go along and we cannot change the
past. This should not imply a severance from celebrating and enjoying
life. Religions are unaware of the anguish of its believers, who are the
borderline cases and like a pendulum swing from panic to serenity. Your
success or failures in life will not be decided by the number of
setbacks you encounter, but rather how you react to them.
The
origins of our fears are buried in the unconscious and religion converts
at onto a transactable commodity making us revisit the stone ages. Fear
is our natural reaction and makes us move closer to reality. We all
act in a certain way and we cannot change the inevitable with hope or
prayer, its how you handle the situation that counts. Real enlightenment
or overcoming fear is when we look inward – to find reservoirs of
strength within ourselves, to define our internal idea and seek it with a
purpose verging on the spiritual. –Vinay-
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