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Each morning most of us, through force of habit will get up and go to work or school, but you have a choice NOT to do those things. Ofcourse, if you didn’t go to work you could get fired, and if you didn’t go to school you would miss out on taking that important math test or homework assignment.

Each of us have the Free Will to make our own choices.

A student at school has to follow the rules governing the school or he/she will have penalties to answer for, but even at school a person can choose NOT to accept the rules. And go at his or her own Free Will.

Free Will is the abliity to choose for one’s self and accept the consequences for their actions.

The meaning of life, in my view is Procreation & Free Will.

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First of all, Man, like all things, has two consistencies: the physical and the nonphysical, or, the mundane and the sublime; the physical, or mundane, consistency constitutes the flesh, and the flesh contains the vital organ-systems necessary to physical, or mundane, life - which, in Man, are the heart-lung-belly system, the musculature-skeleton system, and the brain-nervetree system (take note here that these number three); the nonphysical, or sublime, consistency constitutes the body (which is the nonphysical counterpart to the physical body), and the body contains the vital organ-systems necessary to nonphysical, or sublime, life - which, in Man, are the the soul (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the heart-lung-belly system),  the spirit (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the musculature-skeleton system) and the mind (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the brain-nervetree system).

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- You may have heard - but have you SEEN, EXPERIENCED within yourself (and without as well) the POWER of God?

Based on your response, obviously not - but I actually hope that you have and aren’t admitting it or will someday. I most certainly have. And I believe that the indescribable experience of “otherness”, of something more - isn’t merely wishful thinking. It isn’t delusion. It’s God. Like when you’ve had a great cigar, or meal, or sex, or see the beauty (and perhaps even lack therof) in life, nature, the universe - I KNOW, from my subjective experience, that I have SEEN God through those wonderful experiences.

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I have a firm belief that the answer to the meaning of life is 42. Before you say anything, I KNOW that Douglas Adams said 42 means nothing and was just a simple idea thought up while he was looking out the window, BUT, if you spend your time wondering what the ‘meaning of life’ is, 42 fills that gap. Once you have that question answered, you can move on to more important matters.

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The opinions/thoughts/excretions of others is only a indication of where you are and what surrounds you.  There is only one voice/opinion/life and that is yours.  You are the only constant in your existence.  Believe in yourself.  Look into yourself, hear your thoughts, don’t  judge what you see or hear.  If you don’t like it put it aside for another time (part of non-judgement).  Creation/God, what you like, has only one resource for creation, it self.  So by definition you are not beyond, different, defective, hopeless, etc.  You are looking for someone else’s voice to fill the void created by dismissing your own.  How can life be confusing if by definition we are life?

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Who do you think is in control of your feelings and thoughts? Is it you? Give it some thought.

Suppose I say you are the most noble person I have ever met in my life, that I would give anything to be like you, that you are my role model and I literally worship you. How would you feel? Great! Now suppose I say you are a worthless loser with nothing to achieve in life. How do you feel? Saddened?

As you can see, many times our feelings may be governed and subtly controlled by the opinion of others. It contributes to the reason why happiness for so many is a desirable, yet fleeting experience. Real happiness is found within - it is that which does not depend on external factors such as what others might think of you. Everlasting happiness is derived from something deep down in our very nature that allows one to be happy and grateful for our existence here. If you are not influenced by what others think of you and can lead your life to be and do good, you can be truly happy.

Buddha provides us lessons on life

Once Buddha was teaching a man who disagreed with him and started to verbally abuse him. Buddha, however, was calm and serene with a smile on his face; he remained unmoved by his comments. Seeing this, the man got even more agitated and escalated his shouting and abuse. Still, there was no reaction from Buddha.

The man, tired, asked the Buddha, “Why is it that you never respond?”

Buddha replied “If you offer me a gift and I don’t accept it, who has the gift now?”

The man replied “Of course, I do, don’t you even know that!”

Then the Buddha calmly replied, “Suppose I don’t accept your abuses, with whom do they remain?”

The man was quiet.

This small incident in the life of Buddha teaches us a great deal. Buddha realized that he can never be happy if he sought happiness from outside. It was easy for the Buddha to feel flattered when his disciples praised him and feel bitter when someone disagreed with him. However, Buddha always remained calm and composed because his life was not controlled by others – he was in control of his life. His happiness and his outlook didn’t depend on what others thought about him, rather they came from a sense of fulfillment that came from deep within his own being.

It is easy for us to feel bitter with the people around us. It is easy to feel that life has been unfair and feel all bad about it. It is easy to feel jealous of the success of others and question God why he is being unfair. It is easy to ask ‘Why Me’ when things go wrong. However, opportunities and hurdles come in everyone’s life. The point is, if you are unfazed by them, then you can remain eternally happy. Your happiness should not depend on your success and failure or on what others think about you or how better off you are compared to your neighbor. Only when you realize this, you can be truly happy with life.