Meaninglessness

Have you ever felt that life is meaningless and without purpose? Just a chaotic jumble of random events, and that you better get yours while the getting’s good? This is because the ego analyzes while spirit accepts. The sense of meaning and purpose come from an appreciation of wholeness which comes only through acceptance. To analyze means to break down and separate out.  The attempt to understand totality by breaking it down is the ego’s contradictory approach to everything.  The ego believes that power, understanding and truth lie in separation, and to establish this belief it attacks wholeness and breaks everything into smaller and smaller parts.

Unaware that this belief cannot be established, the ego nonetheless proceeds to break everything down into smaller and smaller disconnected parts, our so-called ‘independent variables,’ without meaningful relationships and therefore without meaning. The ego substitutes chaos for meaning – thus our senses of meaninglessness and purposelesness, for to it separation is salvation, harmony is threat.

Focusing on error, the ego overlooks truth and makes every mistake it perceives real, especially other people’s mistakes. With characteristically circular reasoning, the ego concludes that because mistakes are real and obvious, especially yours, consistent truth is also impossible. So if consistent truth is impossible, consistent meaning and purpose are also impossible and inconsistency must be true; and so we experience life as meaningless, chaotic and without purpose.

Everything you and I experience is a witness to the thought system we have chosen; the thought system we want to be true. Do we want the thought system of ‘pure’ analysis of breaking everything down into smaller and smaller disconnect parts without meaningful relationships, or the thought system of acceptance, inclusion and appreciation of the whole? Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?