5 Answers to Life's Questions

Life has so many questions.  Some we can only speculate the answers to.  Others come to us in a time of strife.  All of us ask questions about life and want to know the answer.  What is life about?  How is it that we live for sixty years and still experience these dark feelings and hard times?  There are many life questions but I have come to find out that there are about five basic ones which are:

1. Is there a God?
2. Why am I sometimes so unhappy?
3. Does love last forever?  Why do we believe that?
4. What should I do next?
5. What is ego and how does it effect me?

Whether there is a God or not really does not matter.  For those who believe or for those who don't believe, the ones who do have nothing to lose.  There seems to me to be a higher power because everything on this earth cannot be logically and completely explained.  I believe that this higher being can be female or male and that this entity guides us and helps us to get through the hard times.  Here's the thing.  God means  something different to different people.  We do not always have the clarity we would like about the God question but what matters is that we know we are guided by some source.  If we look at our lives closely we will know that.

We are unhappy because for one we chose it.  We are allowed to feel like hell or live in a heavenly state according to Buddhist.  We are in the state of mind that we decide to be.  We can ask to be happy or give ourselves  permission to be happy.  We can on the converse be miserable all the time.  Our thoughts and actions guide our feelings and this is why we must be careful to think beautifully and to reject what is not in our highest good, like a bad relationship or job.  We are unhappy because we make poor choices.  We must only remember that happy is something we all deserve and can chose.

Love does not last forever, at least not usually.  Fifty to sixty percent of marriages end in divorce and many times in an "ugly divorce" as some would refer to it.  We would like to think that love lasts forever and for some it lasts until one or the other person transitions, however this is not usually the case.  We must be prepared if for whatever reason we find out that someone stopped loving us or we stopped loving them.  This kind of acceptance can make our lives much easier and have it flow in a normal manner.

Ego is the part of us who takes over and makes a joke out of our life.  It is the ego that becomes jealous of another person and this has even led to death because the jealousy is so deep.  The ego lives within us and is that other persona that manipulates us.  It is for some the "devil" inside of us.  For others it is this ultra ego and we don't understand why it controls us at times of anger and hatred.  The ego comes up when we are in a place of planning and healing to sabotage it for us.  In a way it can be "our evil twin" except that person is still us, just an our of control version of us.  The ego is what has caused wars because one person in charge decides to call a war.  The ego is what plays out when we are jealous because someone looked at our spouse and now we want to fight over it or get irate with the person for looking.  The ego is not rational and so when it comes up we must know it and control it, asking for guidance and love to clear things up.  Letting go of the ego source is the most loving thing we can do for ourselves.

What are your life questions?  Write them down and think about what the practical response would be to each one of them.  Reflect on how your questions are related to your life and the parts in you that are asking to be healed.  Your questions and answers will assist you on your journey.