The Meaning of Life, from the Great Mystery

Most of us go looking for the meaning of life from a low place, disconnected, sad, afraid, or aching, and there is no shame in that. The Love Lady, Juli Martin, brings her guides' answer, and it is simpler and larger than she expected: the meaning of life is to enjoy it all. Not only the good parts. All of it. Because you are both a single human being and a part of the great mystery, the one source and love-light that everything is made of, and you came here for the whole experience. Pain and grief and sorrow are not mistakes in the music; they are some of the notes that make it music. So she offers a way through the hard ones: let curiosity about what is happening inside you soften the grip of the pain, remember that everything passes, and instead of marinating in the story of a feeling, find where it actually lives in your body and see if you can help it move. She is careful to say she is not a therapist, and that real, stuck, long-term pain deserves real help, a good somatic therapist among them. And she comes back, again and again, to the invitation underneath it all: put down the screens, return to your body and to real people, offer your quiet presence to someone else who is hurting, and let yourself relax back into the simple, astonishing enjoyment of being alive. This moment will pass, and joy is closer than it looks.