THE QUEST FOR MEANING CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING

Imagine you watched a film in which all kinds of horrible and random things happened and it ended in one of these random bizarre scenes, where nothing was resolved.  

How would you feel?  

Probably resentful, like you were cheated; with a bad taste in your mouth about the meaningless horror you had to witness.

Now imagine instead that towards the end things came together in a breath-taking manner.  And every bizarre, random, horrible thing made sense.  In this instance, you will probably be left astounded, amazed, enthralled.

In the first instance you experience the whole film as a total waste.  

In the second, you experience it as a work of genius.

So it doesn't matter how the story starts, what matters is how it ends. The end changes your experience of EVERYTHING. Even the beginning. 

So it doesn’t matter if you didn’t have a say in the way your story started.  You can have a say in how it ends, if you decide to change yourself and pursue meaning over form.  (The pursuit of meaning, by definition, requires you to seek your own higher potential).

This is what the quest for meaning can do; it can change the past. It can transform your whole life.  It can turn it from a series of random horrors to a tale of breath taking genius.

The Now is key.  

The witness, the reader of the text is paramount.  

And wholesome action and spiritual practices that make you submit and make you present, are helpful.

So cultivate the detached witness, the one who is here to see, not the one who is seen. And always come back to the present and what you can do now. 

Because your power to change the whole story, the whole experience of your life, is in the Here and Now.

Even if it means one word, one step, one breath.  Do that one tiny correct thing NOW.