FINDING OUR ROLE IN LIFE ( from another Group)

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FINDING OUR ROLE IN LIFE

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Many of us are discontented with our work and / or our lifestyle, but few of us can

identify what it is we really want. Fewer still have the courage to make the changes

necessary to find happiness and fulfillment.

Although most of us live with comforts only kings enjoyed hundreds of years ago,

statistics show that increasingly more people experience disillusionment and depression.

We might have money and material security, but we lack a sense of meaning in our

professional and social lives.

I, for one, experienced such a crisis at the age of twenty-four having worked for two

years as a chemical engineer in a large industrial chemical plant. I had everything

society had convinced me I needed to be happy, but I was completely miserable. I decided

to find a more meaningful occupation. This is not to say that such a job could not be

meaningful to someone else. Such jobs obviously have great value for society and are

interesting and fulfilling for many. It simply was not what I personally had come to do

on this earth. What may be the perfect role for one person may be boring and meaningless

for another.

Each of us has incarnated to play a specific role in this theater of life. When we find

our special role and play it with all our heart, we experience contentment and happiness.

When we do not remember our life purpose, or do not have the courage to live it, we

experience discontent and emptiness. Unless we connect to our life purpose, our lives are

often mechanical and lacking in essence.

Have you ever walked into a room to get something, but upon arriving in that room, have

forgotten what you came to get? I have. I have also found that when I turn around and

start heading in the direction from which I was coming, I remember what it was I had been

seeking. This is true of our lives here on the earth. We are immortal souls who have

incarnated temporarily to evolve, create and serve. Upon arrival, however, we forget why

we came, and waste our lives occupying ourselves with superficial pleasures and material

pursuits.

Eventually, for our own good, through some series of events, often unpleasant and

challenging, we are forced to look inward and remember our life purpose.

THE EARTH SYMPHONY

Collectively, we are like members of a great universal orchestra. Each has his or her

part to play. The harmony of the universal piece we are playing (called

life) demands two basic requirements from each member of the orchestra. Each must first

know his part, and secondly, must be capable of playing it.

All animals and plants naturally and instinctively play their parts in this harmony. They

have no choice.

We, on the other hand, blessed with free will, have the choice to play our part or not.

We also have the responsibility to develop the inner qualities necessary to assume our

role.

At the present time, we may say that the Earth Symphony Orchestra is considerably

discordant. Many of us are playing a piece dictated by our own ego rather than what is

best for the good of the whole. Few of us have found our real part in this symphony, and

out of discontent, are competing rather than co-operating with the others. Thus, finding

our role in life is not only imperative for our own happiness, but also for social and

world harmony.

In some cases, we may need to make choices between the following:

a. Money or meaningfulness

b. Comfort or creativity

c. Security or evolution

d. Social "success" or social responsibility

e. Superficial happiness or real inner contentment

f. Satisfying others' expectations or our own inner voice of wisdom.

We need to choose wisely. Let us examine what we can do to regain contact with our life

purpose.

FREEDOM FROM SOCIAL PROGRAMMING

We will need to free ourselves from our social conditioning concerning what kind of work

has value. Society puts a certain value on each profession. This is usually based on the

amount of money, prestige or power it can generate.

This money, prestige and power, however, may not make us happy. Society's formula for

success is based on a rather superficial view of man's nature.

We are programmed as young children to feel economically insecure. We are also programmed

to place the utmost importance on what others think of us. We seek their acceptance,

respect and admiration. Such programming leads to anxiety, fear, nervous tension, and

illness.

In the process of listening to our inner voice, we may find we are confronted by

criticism from family and relatives who perhaps feel intimidated by our lifestyle

changes. Our changes could force them to either doubt their presumptions about life or

reject us. The second is easier for them. In such cases, we will need sufficient inner

strength to remain unaffected by their reactions. At the same time, we need to have

enough love to forgive them and try to help them understand that we are not running away

from them or from life, but just asking for the freedom to pursue that which fulfills us.

After passing through a period of self-examination, we may also find that we are actually

doing that which we were born to do. In such a case, we most likely will feel fulfilled.

There is, however, the possibility that we may not yet have connected with the truths

which would allow us to enjoy that purpose and perform it with love and dedication.

Often the simplest roles can offer us the greatest spiritual lessons. Take, for example,

the roles of motherhood or fatherhood. Not much importance is given to them today because

many feel that working in an office has more prestige or creativity. Yet, there is no

more important role than that of parenthood. The future of the world depends on the

quality of today's children. As adults, their inner world, quality of being and behavior

are clearly a product of how much attention and love they receive as children. Many

parents believe they can offer their children more by working more so as to offer them a

better education. A person becomes great not because of his education, but because of his

character.

OVERCOMING FEAR

We will need to overcome our fears of such things as:

1. Failure

2. What others think.

3. That we may not make it financially

4. That we may not be perfect in what we do

5. That we might make a mistake.

We are all in a process of evolution. If we were perfect, we would not have incarnated.

Making mistakes is natural when we are learning and creating. It is important to

understand that we are worthy and lovable even though we are not perfect.

We must also overcome various fears of specific objects and situations, such as

airplanes, elevators, boats, hospitals, dust, microbes, certain kinds of people, animals,

etc. These can be obstacles towards fulfilling our life purpose.

As expressions of divine consciousness, we want to become effective instruments of that

consciousness, able to play any part that serves the benefit of the whole. Our fears are

an obstacle to that effectiveness.

by Elias Najemy

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