Female

20

I am an artist who loves traveling and learning about physics. Becoming whole again as you were at birth. Free of all of the fears, misperceptions, and limiting beliefs. How great would it feel to dance, laugh, sing, out loud again as if you had no fear of what others thought of you. To be free of all of those habits, fears, phobias that control your life. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. The true purpose of our lives here on earth is not what we accomplish outwardly, but what we accomplish within ourselves. We can build empires, but if in the process all we have done is conquer territories and build monuments, it will all soon crumble into dust. The deeper purpose of human life is to understand our relationship to a broader reality than our own. This is made difficult because we're so used to living in our little egos. We look at our hand and think, "This is my hand." Do we realize that it's made up of molecules that were once in the rocks and soil? That long ago the molecules in our hand may have been in some distant galaxy, or even in some earlier universe that exploded and dissolved in a Night of Brahma? These molecules may then have ultimately recondensed from star gases to become a part of this planet, which our human body absorbed in the form of food. For a little while these molecules compose our hand, and then they will be something entirely different. We look at ourselves in the mirror, and think with such concern, "Oh dear, another gray hair here. Another wrinkle there." But life goes on, and it all changes. Through all of these outward changes, however, we can remain unchanged at the heart of everything. We can be like that power of calmness at the heart of the storm, or in the great depths of the ocean. No matter how strong the tempest is, no matter how the waves crash, we can be untouched in our deep essence. It depends where we place our consciousness. If we live on the surface of our beings, we will feel the storms, but if we dive deep to our center, we are untouched. Our purpose in life is to reach that level within where we can look out at the universe and see ourselves reflected everywhere. We then see ourselves not only as this ego, but as part of one great life of which we, too, are but an example. We have been born into this world to expand our consciousness, expand it beyond the moment, beyond the ego, beyond the body, beyond the activities of this one lifetime. If we have to be active, why not act in harmony and love? Why not show people an example of how richly rewarding it is to live in joy instead of sorrow, in love instead of hatred, in peace instead of disharmony?