“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” — Lao Tzu
The Meaning We Provide Is Subjective
What in your life has recently been lost? Was there a relationship involved? an occupation? finances or another issue? What feelings did the loss cause you to feel? Maybe it’s rage, fear, or another emotion? Are you still processing your loss, or have you recovered? I want to reassure you that what was taken from you will eventually be replaced by something greater. I don’t want to offer you false hope that ending a relationship will lead to finding someone new. People sometimes leave our lives abruptly. Since I am destined for the same outcome, I regrettably lack all of the solutions.
One thing, though, I have discovered. When something is lost from my life, I experience a period of mourning before better things enter my life. Whether we do or not is up to us. In any case, the interpretation we make is subjective since we don’t fully understand why things take place. To soothe our minds, we can only make assumptions. Do you have any experience with this? Are you still trying to find an explanation for why the cosmos occasionally behaves cruelly and unfairly? It is normal to have these thoughts, but they might lead us down a rabbit hole of despair while we hunt for solutions.
I urge you to concentrate on the lessons you learned from the experience rather than trying to figure out what they mean because it might or might not happen. It would be irresponsible of me to even try to explain why awful things happen because I am unable to. In order to go forward as best you can, I can only help you make sense of what happened. The goal is to re-empower ourselves by gaining fresh knowledge and experience while also viewing our setbacks with self-kindness and compassion.
The Universe Wants To Make Use Of Your Pain
Life can alter at any time, making the cosmos seldom predictable. People’s life are turned upside down, and they are abruptly thrust into desperate circumstances. The cosmos always offers us more in return when it takes something from our lives, that much I am certain of. We receive the gifts of knowledge, tenacity, humility, compassion, and moral fortitude from it. If not for our loss and pain, we would not be able to purchase these virtues online because they take years to develop. What I’m trying to convey is that when we find ourselves in circumstances that are not of our choosing, we come to terms with our true selves.
We all encounter pain and suffering, and how much we suffer depends on how we perceive our setbacks. Having studied the lives of centenarians over the years, it is clear that many of them experienced anguish and suffering. Their determination to live is the only thing they have in common. In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl discussed this concept. Thousands of people have heard the experiences of those who withstood tremendous hardship during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and found the resolve to live.
We become more resilient and are able to prioritise our priorities while we are experiencing hardship. Our anguish serves as a healing agent for the suffering of others. We may utilise our suffering to concentrate on matters that are important to us, such as social justice, inequality, environmental concerns, or other problems impacting people. Some people discover a greater meaning in their tragedy when they lose something important. I’m brought to mind people who experience catastrophic events like vehicle accidents, murder, and rape that result in the loss of family members. Some people launch social initiatives aimed at improving the lives of those impacted by these tragic incidents. So what exactly am I saying?
Trust. Try to be as accepting as you can, and have faith that the universe will use your suffering for your own good or the good of others. Fair or unfair, life is neither. These explanations are provided by our mind to make sense of unpleasant circumstances. Life is functioning properly and fostering our personal development.
In other words, if the universe has taken something from your life, something better might come along soon to fill the void. After all, the Greek philosopher Aristotle is credited with the phrase “Nature abhors a hoover.” Meaning: Something greater or equivalent in value will take its place.
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Cosmos always gives more than it takes❤️ Love the concept
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It does Sir. We are able to appreciate it quite later in life.
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Thanks for that insight
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I’m still trying to figure out why the Universe sent me a maniac dog in my old age that I can’t keep up with. 🐕
Kidding aside, yes, everyone faces adversity at some point. I found that grieving any type of loss is important to get through first.
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God wanted you to stay active and playful, perhaps.. hehe
Grieving is important, Yes. When you grieve, you often have intense and enduring feelings of disbelief, shock, despair, sadness, and guilt that can be hard to deal with. Even so, these feelings are a normal part of the healing process. Experiencing them will allow you to move on with your life.
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Great post. Going back to your post a few weeks ago when you were discussing the decisions and actions that you have made have brought you to where you are today is something that we must learn to accept and stop blaming other people or making excuses for things. I’ve lived to learn I’m the only person who is capable of doing something or doing nothing. You have to be moving just like everything else in the universe is. You can’t be static. You can have an individual battle with yourself and you might think you are going nowhere but you come to realise that you were doing something that you needed to do. Does that make sense? No amount of worrying or anxiety about anything will have any impact on what actually happens. Concentrate on the things that you are able to change or interact with and forget about the things you can’t control. I don’t have any answers but I’m just trying to figure out how things are going on with my life and understand what it means. I might never get to understand it but I’m going to get to understand a lot about myself. Finally, in the words of Alan Watts “Remember that everything in the universe is gloriously meaningless” (I may have misquoted but you get the idea)
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I am so happy to read such an empowering message. It makes complete sense. At the end of the day, the world isn’t ever going to stop for you. No matter how much you feel sorry for yourself, the world is never going to just stop because you’re hurting. The world will keep turning as it did before you went through the situation that destroyed you and threw off the balance in your life. The only choice you have from this moment on is this: Are you going to move forward with every ounce of strength and bravery in you, or are you going to let your circumstance be your identity?
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Absolutely. Reading Alan Watts I came across this suggestion and I will try to be as accurate as I can with it and I’d love to hear your opinion on it. So basically we look at things like the ocean and the trees and the stars in the sky as separate entities from us and we separate ourselves from our surroundings. Just as we name our organs and the process that they do as separate from each other organ. What if you look at the universe and see everything is existing and in the present moment. Only things that exist are experiencing the present moment. We are all part of the same universe. We are connected to every single other thing that is in the universe as we are part of it. We are as connected with it as much as anything else. You have lungs that rely on oxygen and then produce carbon dioxide as waste but plants and trees rely on carbon dioxide. The ocean and water are vital to our existence as is our ability to consume and to excrete. When you look at the sky you are looking at yourself. It’s beautiful but yet beautiful isn’t anything but a word to describe what you are seeing. You are seeing something simply existing. Existing is beautiful in every aspect. If we simply exist and we are existing with our surroundings we are beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
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Life is a beautiful, messy thing. It’s within life’s paradoxes that we find the essence of being human. Our ability to feel, our ability to be angry, our ability to cry, our ability to smile, all within the same day’s time. I don’t quite know how this is all possible, but I do know that it is simply amazing. It’s not amazing because it feels good. Truthfully, feeling everything is painful and annoying, but nothing is better than knowing that you have allowed life to move through your lungs like a strong wind.
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It’s totally astonishing to begin to understand it. There’s different perspectives about life from different cultures that are all fascinating and relatable to. Life is purposelessness was one explanation. When we have no purpose and we are simply there like the waves of the sea. The waves aren’t doing anything but being a wave. We are always doing something to reach a goal or constrained by time etc etc. I think it’s a fantastic explanation of life. Similar to the simply existing idea. We have a predisposition for everything having a start and a end. Birth and death. We aren’t aware about thinking about anything beyond that. I read we have a formula for everything and we are trying to fit everything in our formula. It’s not always going to fit. It’s said that you don’t remember your birth then how do you really know that you are alive? I’m so enthused by reading the opinions of others that are given me an insight into what I didn’t know and how I know a fraction of what life has to offer. It’s fascinating
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It really is fascinating. Self-actualization is a fancy way to say “fulfilling your highest potential.” It means to live a life that is most aligned with who you truly are. Yet figuring out ‘who you truly are’ can be hard, forget trying to align your entire existence with that idea.
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is FOCUS available in all countries?All the best
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Yes it’s available in countries which have Amazon
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sure I’ll check
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“I regrettably lack all of the solutions.” From my perspective, this indicates you are trapped in a dualistic world. Solutions require problems. Whenever we see reality in terms of opposites (e.g . Problem/solution) that view of reality perpetuates itself
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Processing this one ……🤯
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My mother used to say when I was younger, “everything works out in the end and if everything isn’t alright then it isn’t the end”.
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Beautiful words said by your mother. She taught us hope and belief.
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