“The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, even after obtaining the object of one’s desire, one is still not satisfied, it becomes limitless or boundless and that leads to trouble. On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content.” — Dalai Lama
Tag: Meaning of Life
The Meaning Of Life Revealed
“To Love and be Loved.”
“Wait! That’s it? That’s all you got? Are you kidding me?”, people might be thinking.
And I say, “What? it’s too simple for you?”
Hello. Earth to astonished person. Wake up. Of course it’s simple.
It’s profoundly simple, and yet simply profound.
“To Love and be Loved.”
Most of life is simple. It’s our nature to want to complicate things, to believe, “Everything is important.”
Why? It’s remains a mystery to this very day. Perhaps it’s the whole “keeping up with the Jones” syndrome.
Simplicity is the way. The only way.
By the way, “I’ll bet you still don’t have an answer, do you?”, he thought to himself as he finished writing this blog post.
Annoying Simplicity
Okay, my wife says I march to the beat of a different drummer. And after 50 years, I’m finally okay with that. It’s who I am – who I want to be.
Are ya with me? Are you cool with who you are? With the way people judge perceive you?
No, really, are you? Most people are, right? Because most people are pretty “normal” (whatever that means).
But if you’ve ever felt sort of out on the edge, the fringe so to speak, it’s a fairly lonely place to be. And it takes guts to be out there.
Had to tell you all of that to tell you this: “You didn’t give enough consideration to yesterday’s challenge to have a convincing answer today.”
How do I know? Because I live on the fringes, an outsider. Outsiders know. Wish it was explainable.
So, may I ask you, again, to take yesterday’s challenge more seriously today?
You know what, don’t even worry about. It’s far too much to ask of an adult, in mid life, to have an immediate, and convincing answer to the most basic of childhood questions.
Just tell those precious young minds to run along, and not to bother you.
Is Love All That Matters?
Is it?
I mean seriously, humans have complicated life, in a noble attempt to simplify it. Haven’t we?
Perhaps greed is the underlying thread that has made simplicity so complex.
No matter, we continue our search for the meaning of life and the peace we hope to gain from embracing it – if only it would be revealed to us.
Tell you what, I’ll reveal it to you tomorrow and all your challenges will vanish.
Meanwhile, mull on this overnight:
If a child asked you, “What is the meaning of life?”, what would your immediate answer be?
Two Mid Life Celebration Items
Two quick things:
1. If you are not aware of the other four blogs associated with Mid Life Celebration, which is totally possible, feel free to visit my Internet headquarters at www.jeffnoel.com
2. If you have heard about the daily five-a-day blogging and have any interest or curiosity as to why, I’m currently wrapping up a three part series on this at www.jeffnoel.com
Hope you have a GREAT Monday and that this week is the best week of your entire life.
If it sounds crazy, that’s okay. May I challenge you to ask yourself, “What’s stopping me from having the best week of my entire life?”