What if the beliefs you’ve held close, the very things that gave you purpose, suddenly seemed like strangers?
How do you hold on to meaning when it feels like it’s slipping through your fingers?
These were the questions that weighed down the wealthy, famous writer Tolstoy.
Even though he had a loving family and children…
Nothing was missing to enjoy his life…
Yet, he was consumed by an inner emptiness.
In his 50s, he faced an existential crisis…
What is my life’s purpose?What is all of this for?Why am I here?Why should I continue living if everything I love and cherish will ultimately fade away?
Tolstoy’s own meaning of life—his fame and success—felt like an illusion to him.
Because it is so…For a religious seeker, fame, success, money, and family are just illusions.
He wanted to find something that would last and give him a reason to keep going.
For every religious person, worldly life is meaningless and often disgusting.
In his autobiography, Confession, his search for meaning brought him to the verge of suicide.
Personal satisfaction becomes a hollow pursuit; it doesn’t give us meaning.
In the end, he discovered a truth that was as simple as it was profound…
But meaningless for religious people!
Tolstoy realized that meaning could not be found in grand pursuits or intellectual answers but in acts of humility, connecting with others, and accepting life as it is.
Only by merging myself with the whole of humanity could I find my life’s purpose!
Life has no meaning, nor is it meaningless. (Quote Bhagwan or Osho.)
Tolstoy failed. Without a spiritual connection to God—found through contemplation—life has no meaning.
You have to look beyond your physical body, emotions, and thoughts.
“I can’t die; I am energy.” These were the last words of Wilhelm Einstein.
I don’t want to brag, but I was clinically dead three times or had three near-death experiences.
I read everything I could find about near-death experiences… Guess what? What I experienced is normal, and what all religions say about death is a big lie to exploit people.
You can never die! There is no hell, no paradise, no Moksha, and no Nirvana. But there is God!
You have never felt such unlimited freedom as many feel when leaving their bodies.
God wanted me to come back into my body—my cage—and so I did.
If you surrender your life to God, your life will make sense to you!
Instead of running like a hungry dog after worldly pleasures! (Quote Attar, the greatest Sufi.)
When my child died, my life fell apart…
My only focus in life became my spiritual journey, and God came to me… God became my purpose.
I spent over ten years in meditation retreats because life doesn’t make sense without surrendering to God.
We have the choice: to be slaves to our egos or to God.
When religions lost their grip on people, they began searching for purpose or meaning in their lives—or to make a difference in the world.
How disgusting is this sentence? I call this megalomania!
How does one become humble by serving the Lord?Do it for God!
The meaning of life or purpose is for irreligious people.
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