15th Weekly Thought:

Illusion and Reality

We are all born with a unique combination of gifts and talents. While living our life - how good or bad it may have been till now - we have learned a lot of things things! Without exception!!!

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Our meaning comes from using what we have and can for others.

Conversely, when we use our skills and knowledge to gain meaning and often even want to achieve "the best for others", we often succumb to a dangerous deception!

If we as parents want to protect our children from all kinds of dangers and guard them, we are not helping them to grow and become independent, but we are preventing them from doing so and making them easy victims later on.

If we believe that we have to enforce a religious or political truth for the sake of all - if necessary also with pressure and violence - then we are not world saviours or God's servants, but demagogues, dictators, terrorists or even murderers who destroy exactly what they want to build - at least in the long run.

When we are on social media, posting a lot and actively participating, more and more of us believe that we are socially engaged and helping others with that. In reality, however, we are gradually unlearning how to act socially and self-responsibly, and are increasingly becoming nothing more than a burden to those closest to us and to society. Nor will we grow and become more and more informed, more and more educated, but we will sink into emptiness, stupidity and helplessness.

So if we want to live up to our meaning, we can only do so by taking responsibility for our behaviour, perceiving the real result for others and then learning from it to correct existing shortcomings.

In this way, our true meaning is given to us without having to worry about it! And we will be full of gratitude and happiness!

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