It happens to everybody sooner or later. We stop what we are doing and ask ourselves: “What am I doing here? What is the purpose of all this? What is the purpose of my life?”
We usually don’t go any further because we don’t know where to start and we don’t like the questions for which we don’t have an answer.
If only we had the answer to that question everything else would fall into place. We may spend less time trying to make more money and spend more time with our children. We may distance ourselves from some people and search for the company of others. Some stress would evaporate.
There are two important days in our life,
The day we are born and the day we find out why.
Mark Twain.
1 - Foreword
QUESTION 6: The gist of our life
Life would be much easier if only we knew what we are doing.
If so many people of different races, religions, age and background have the same question, there must be an answer that everybody could accept.
The first step is to make sure that we are asking the right question. Let’s go back to the beginning. We are conscious of having a body and a soul. The body belongs to the material domain where everything has a weight, a color, a shape and many particularities that can be measured. This is a well-known territory. The soul belongs to a domain where nothing has a weight, a color and nothing can be measured. The question that comes to mind is:
“What could convince a human soul to get associated
with such a body – even for a short time?”
Nobody should pretend to have the right answer but we can try to build a pedestal on which everybody can erect his own statue.