Lightworks

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

~Robert Byrne, author

It is easy to get sidetracked in life.

We are put through the experiences of traveling life by our parents, our schools and our workplaces.  Willing and eager, we set out on the journey with our innermost being in tow.  Doing everything that is in the prescription for happiness, we create our individualized script, pick our cast and create the play.

Somewhere along the way, we get so caught up in the drama of day to day life, we forget why we are doing what we are doing. Competition, aggressive people, various difficulties enter the scene and mess everything up. Not to mention the complexity of life that comes from living on several playing fields all raging at the same time.  Life seems to pound us into the ground sometimes, with people reminding us that we are not so great.

Some of my colleagues are convinced that he who dies with the most toys, wins.  Funny.  It seems that when you are dead those toys are irrelevant and the bank account with 9 zeros is meaningless.

The game turns into a rat race and the people playing the game play hard.

So it is very easy to forget who we are.

We are still free people with magnificent, powerful, incredible minds that can create all kinds of reality.

It is almost as if the light was deliberately withdrawn from us.  By us.

That light is always within us.  We don’t have to call the light to us because we all have that spark of light.  We were born with it.  You see it in children playing.  And in our happiest moments.  Connecting back to that light is something we can do right now.  Every day.

Our birthright is to receive that light.  So, if you can imagine that the purpose of life is to experience happiness, our job is literally to make the best of everything we do.  Because literally everything we do is a chance to achieve our purpose of happiness.  And to bring happiness to the people around us.

What a different perspective.

The purpose of life is to receive light, not for the self alone, but for the sake of sharing with others.  Giving to others can bring great joy and adds both purpose and meaning.  Happiness comes from the love of great friends and family and from making a meaningful contribution to the people around us.

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

–Albert Einstein, Physicist, 1879-1955

Science says that the universe exploded into existence over 15 billion years ago and that the energy released into all those systems and suns will last another 60 billion years or so.

This Big Bang started the beginning of time.  It puts some perspective into our short life.  And the possibility that we do live multiple lives becomes more plausible.

The first cause was incredible, intense light.

Kabbalah, the most ancient of mystical documentation agrees with science. Kaballah, now translated from the ancient Aramaic language shows that this wisdom goes to the moments before the Big Bang to explore the dimension of awareness that was first cause.

The light.  Light is one of those things, like time, electricity and power that no one can really explain…we understand how to use it, but not exactly what it is or where it comes from.

From the first days of creation, knowledge was passed to the biblical partriarchs and matriarchs like Adam, Abraham, Sarah and Moses.   It takes some time to understand the ancient knowledge from this tradition like the Zohar and Abraham’s Book of Formation, however, it is amazing how powerful the tools are that enable both practical knowledge and spiritual insight.

It also seems that this knowledge split into two mystery traditions:  one for the West and one for the East.  That would be Kabbalah for the West and the Vedic traditions for the East.  But, guess what!  Fundamentally, this wisdom, while presented in different forms, says the same things.

And with our very first breath, we receive the seed of life and light.  Then, our whole life is about choosing from among all of the possibilities of paths that are presented from that very first breath.  Given our own wisdom and choices and with the right care, food, information, and light we grow into the best person we can be.

But, if we live in what the Buddhists call delusion, do not work on ourselves and do not consciously seek to transform our desire to receive light and life into one that serves others, we will remain both lost, unhappy and in the dark.  In this state, we ignore the obvious signs of the changes that we need to make to move closer to the light….and things can get pretty dark.  People call the crisis point –the Dark Night of the Soul.  When life presents something so grim (life threatening health issues, family issues, love issues) that it cries for the attention of the person….

It is so interesting to watch all of the people that live and work around us grow and change.   The psychology of each person is unique. They all are following their personal interests based on the predictable cycle of influences that come with living life.  How can there be such diversity?  So many choices.  These people all present themselves to us to show the mirror of diversity and the part of you that is like them.

No one is making us do anything.  We have free will.   We have the choice.

The point is to live your life ABOVE THE LINE…In creativity, love, enthusiasm, discovery, exploration, meditation….not BELOW THE LINE….in fear, judgment, anger, aggressiveness, jealousy…..

The line is boredom, safety–or the point of correction.

Do you understand the meaning of life?  Does your life have purpose? Are you collecting coins for your own benefit or do you share what you have?   Are you doing and being everything that you can be with this life?  Are you wasting your time? Are you awake?  Alive?  Did you quit before you even started?  Are you contributing to society?

Are you really?  Let’s dive into this one.

I can’t believe that my blog that I have labored over and enjoyed for years is just gone.  Vanished in a puff of smoke.  But, hackers evidently attack WordPress sites that are vulnerable to attack.   Just like this freeway above.

Gotta wonder what drives hackers to do random damage like this.

Maybe it was to get my attention!  To pay more attention to the blog!

After spending time reviving the databases and restoring part of the site to it’s pristine condition, I decided that it would be just as nice to start over.  What was previously written was so 2008 etc…

So, if you are one of my followers who have brought me great joy by writing me and encouraging me to continue the exploration of the self that my blog represents, I am starting again.

It is important to reach searchers who are starting on the path, people who are looking for the meaning of life and others who might have gotten lost along the way.