Would you challenge your meaning of life?

Question

Some say- Life is living each day to my best of ability. Do they really try their best each day. Would they be content to say If I die today I'm glad I lived each day to my best.

Some say- It is what you make it. If they made their life out to be uncontentful. Will they find contentment?

Give me your input.

Please no immaturity here. I have had a life changing experience and I want to see how others truely view their time here on earth as.

Answer 1

We all want to live our lives to the best of our ability, at least that is what I believe. We don't always succeed but for most folks that is the target we aim for. Would I be content...now yes.. but not as a younger woman, I had a lot to learn about how to feed my soul.

I believe life is largely what you make it as far as what you can control, that being yourself and your reactions to things. If you intentionally set out to make your life uncontentful it will be. You won't find contentment until you let the good and lovely things into your life and push the discontentment out of your life.

Intentionally choosing happiness in you own circumstances..especially when things get tough.and learning to bloom where you are planted releases you from the grip of discontentment.

To be happy or not is a personal choice everyone has to make.

Answer 2

Sometimes I feel that that I have it all figured out and I do try to live what I think is the perfect way. Then something rises up and kicks me in the a**.  Then I start thinking why bother with being the good guy, good guys finish last if they finish at all. Sometimes I want to so badly go back to my old ways h**l raising girl chasing take no c**p from any jerk that may feel the need to test his testosterone level against mine.

But then I come back down to earth and realize that if I went against the guy I have become then that redhead I married just might really kick my a** in a way it's never been kicked.

She saved me from my anger and the darkness 20 years ago

Answer 3

As I look back on my life, I see the mistakes I made, and what lead to those mistakes, and what I've learned from them. I also see my accomplishments, how I achiebved them, and my effort spent to gain them. Now as I am approaching 40 (I'm 36 btw), I want better outcomes from my actions, instead of the same tried and true, since those did not provide me with contentment. I am building my character, and learning to really care for myself. Doing some soul searching to find out who I am and what I want in life, instead of letting every day simply come and go and pass me by. I want to be a better person to myself, so that I can be a better person to people in general. So I agree that life is what you make it, and how you see it. One quote I recall hearing made me think very deeply.... It was "Change the way in which you see the world, and the world changes."

Answer 4

I think that you need need to live your life in a way that makes you happy and content...and leaves you feeling as if you have done your best. For me, that means that I always try to do what is right--even when it's hard or not what I really want to do--and I try to treat people as I would want to be treated.

However, I also believe that your beliefs about the meaning of life may change depending upon your age and living. And that is ok. I think that it's a good thing to challenge previously formed opinions.

Answer 5

I think if you do what you want to do when you feel like doing it for the most part that will be satisfied, even if its viewed as something negative by others. Also, if you are constantly stepping out of your walls (by doing things you've wanted to do but for some reason never did or where scared to do or just randomly trying new things) then you're probably living life to the fullest. challenging yourself and appreciating things.

i feel most satisfied when i revel in my misery or step out of my walls.

Answer 6

I think that if you have "low standards", I guess, for life, then you won't be disappointd as much.

That sounds bad, but I look at it from a different angle. The way I see it, nothing in this life is promised. You absolutely cannot expect for things to happen or go your way-- that's ignorant.

You can't expect things from life, because life doesn't owe you anything and neither does anyone else. To me, living to the best of my ability is living for myself and saying, "**** all the rest." If you live for yourself without trying to please and without expecting to be pleased, I think you're on the right track.

Answer 7

i just figure i'm not doing anything else, i might as well go out and have some fun. need funds of course and health.

Answer 8

Most persons do not even suspect the existence of God and naturally they are not very keen about God. There are others who, through the influence of tradition, belong to some faith or another and catch the belief in the existence of God from their surroundings. Their faith is just strong enough to keep them bound to certain rituals, ceremonies or beliefs and rarely possesses that vitality which is necessary to bring about a radical change in one’s entire attitude towards life. There are still others who are philosophically minded and have an inclination to believe in the existence of God either because of their own speculations or because of the assertions of others. For them, God is at best an hypothesis or an intellectual idea. Such lukewarm belief in itself can never be sufficient incentive for launching upon a serious search for God. Such persons do not know of God from personal knowledge, and for them God is not an object of intense desire or endeavor.

This is a synopsis of a book entitled "God Speaks." The book was written in 1955 by Meher Baba and explains the meaning of life.

Life is a journey that God is traveling.

The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean of Knowledge, Power and Bliss were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I?". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness.

Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question.

The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air.



When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness.

So the original "Who am I?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people.

But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience.

Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."

Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path, and there are as many ways to God as there are souls.

Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness.

The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."

The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of "Who am I?" with "I am God." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite with infinite Knowledge, Power and Bliss. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul.