IT’S NO USE! This remark comes from grief, from loss, from failure to change things so that life is better. Perhaps you feel that you’ve lost so much you can never fully recover. Maybe you are resigned to things as they are.
And perhaps you have supportive friends who don’t blame you for feeling that way. They may even commiserate with you and together you find solace in ‘this is just the way it is, how things are, how life is.’
But if you want the energy to live your life, and you are not ready to give in to things as they are, then a shift in what you believe to be true is needed. It is time to rebuild your life from a new perspective and with a new strategy.
Instead of being resigned to things as they are, surrender to them. In addition, let go of judging yourself for past decisions you regret. See them for what they are — why you made them at the time, and what you now know not to do.
Resignation believes things cannot ever get better. Therefore, there is no incentive to dust off your creative capacities to change things. Surrender, on the other hand, does not resist. When you surrender, you are available to see the possibilities and openings —subtle as they might be —for you to begin to move out of your situation. Surrender to what is as you start to create what will be.
Indeed, we cannot always walk away. But we can begin to change our lives by believing that we are in charge of our destiny and that we are the ones with the real power to redirect our lives. This may not seem to be anywhere near the truth, especially if we feel we are permanently caught in a situation that is far larger and stronger than we are.
And if we accept that, and do not push back, that will be the case. Forever.
The way out is to take a ferocious stand for your life. Decide that the only thing that matters now is taking back your life. Feel into the desires of your heart, mind, and body for the future you want to bring in. Embody these desires by making every choice in service to the future, to the life you want to be living, to how you want to look and feel, to the people you want around you, to the experiences you want to have.
From here on out, every decision you make, from the most apparently insignificant to far more important ones, must be in service to your best interests — to you, not to or for someone else. YOU ARE WRITING YOURSELF INTO A NEW STORY. Even if you have dependents —human, animal, or otherwise — you will serve them best when you are at your best. Now is always the time to let go of conditioning and programs that riddle you with guilt around who you are supposed to be in the world, what you are supposed to be doing, how you should live, how much money you should have, how you should look, to name a few, to be worthy, acceptable, righteous, obedient, humble, a good citizen, etc.
The only way to break out of conditioning and all the habits that are designed to undermine your flourishing is to take this stand for your life. You may never have done this, so you may need to find your courage now. You may wonder how exactly one takes a stand for their life. Begin by choosing yourself. Begin by saying yes to what calls you. You may not be able to leave your job right away, but you can uplevel your joy by focusing on what uplifts and getting rid of what brings you down. You may not be able to move a lot of territory initially, but the more pieces you move on your behalf, the more you will believe in your own advocacy. Every single small action that you perform on your behalf, on behalf of the life you truly want to live, will have a cumulative effect towards bringing in a future that supports, values, and honors you. This is a law of energetics — where you put your attention and focus is what you will grow. Believe that there is no greater cause than yourself, that there is no more sacred purpose than the life you came to live. This is YOUR life; it belongs to you. You are responsible for it.
Have compassion for yourself. Have patience with the process. There will be days when you feel you have failed. The thing is to get back up and keep going.
Job loss and prolonged unemployment are ongoing realities for millions in the United States. I have personally experienced multiple layoffs, and each time I return to work, it has not restored the stability I once had. The financial damage caused by unemployment is rarely fully recovered, especially when savings deplete and debt increases—an almost inevitable outcome, given the inadequacy of unemployment benefits. Even after securing a new job, the burden of debt can feel overwhelming, making recovery seem like a distant goal.
While some people argue that personal responsibility or karma explains job loss, these beliefs overlook the widespread nature and frequency of unemployment, which affects all demographics. This issue is much larger than any individual’s actions and challenges the myth that hard work alone guarantees success. The concept of self-reliance overlooks the systemic forces that affect us all.
What stands out, then, is that employment depends on more than individual effort. Securing a job always involves others, whose decisions ultimately determine our opportunities—no matter how much we try to lift ourselves by our “bootstraps.” This interdependence challenges the notion that personal merit alone is enough to secure a job.
At the end of 2010, I experienced a layoff that lasted for 14 months. During that challenging period, I applied for over 300 jobs that matched my qualifications, but I received only two interviews. The first interview did not yield any results, while the second one led to a position at a law firm. Unfortunately, the role did not align with the job listing, and the actual duties provided little to enhance my resume. Nevertheless, after 14 months of searching and with dwindling resources, I was grateful to have a job.
However, just over a year later, I was laid off again due to the firm’s economic restructuring. This was yet another instance in a long history of layoffs that had persisted since the early 1980s.
To gain a better understanding of my situation, I sought input from others. My well-meaning friends offered various perspectives: “This is your karma coming due,” “You’ve ignored your life’s calling,” and “It’s a wake-up call from the Universe—figure it out before it’s too late.” These comments placed the entire responsibility for my hardships on me, while also suggesting an upside: if I can create discomfort, then surely I can create joy and abundance. Supposedly, this journey is about recognizing what the “Universe” wants from me, and I can’t achieve that simply by holding a job.
What is Karma? I want to take some time to explore the feedback on my question, “What do you think might be going on here?” First, let’s start with a shared understanding of karma. In Hinduism, karma refers to the principle that individuals reap the consequences of their actions from this life or past lives, and possibly even multiple previous lives. It is a cosmic principle that emphasizes that one cannot escape the repercussions of stealing what rightfully belongs to someone else—especially essential items like food, clothing, shelter, and funds that are necessary for a person’s survival.
Moreover, taking away resources that enable someone’s well-being—such as education, reputation, and health—disrupts their ability to live the life they are entitled to, a life they may have agreed to before birth. Stealing someone’s foundation of support is akin to stealing their life force, and in this sense, it can be compared to murder, as it removes all choice from the affected person.
This act creates a significant imbalance in both personal and universal order, which must be corrected. Ultimately, no one can avoid the necessity of returning what does not belong to them. While some may believe they can postpone facing the consequences for multiple lifetimes, an unavoidable force will eventually compel them to restore balance and do the right thing, whether they like it or not.
Karma is magnetic. When you are in the vicinity of someone to whom you owe restoration (or who owes you), you will feel drawn to them. Often, you will feel an overwhelming attraction. The intensity is not easily dismissed. This is necessary to establish a relationship that will allow you to resolve past painful interactions. Note that there is also attraction with dharmic agreements (but perhaps without the burning intensity of karma), such as teaming up to perform a mutual task. Follow the yellow brick road as it were, and the purpose of the connection will eventually be revealed. In both cases, there is a mysterious pull that you will want to explain as “that person is fascinating,” or “that person is attractive,” or “they have something to offer that I’ve been looking for.” In any case, your karma has hooked you—or your dharma is calling.
Sometimes karma takes on the form of direct payback. What you did to another will be done to you by that same person. In this instance, the other person is forcibly taking back what belongs to them rather than waiting for you to return it graciously. This is far less pleasant than engaging a relationship that may have other mutually rewarding aspects, but lacking gracefulness as it does, it gets the job done, and you are released from that karma. This is the form of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but more advanced souls prefer to avoid such literal payback. It is far more pleasant to heal the broken connection between you by offering gifts that serve the same purpose as returning stolen goods. This also opens the opportunity to take the relationship to a higher level, one in which you mutually find ways to assist each other’s journey. The willingness to do this will depend on the severity of the original theft. It will be much harder to accept someone who previously murdered you as a friend you can trust. It can, however, be done.
Often karma works like this: instead of being drawn to a person or a situation (place of employment, organization, course of study, educational institution, and so on), you find yourself the surprised and unwilling recipient of a series of unpleasant and life-altering events. Bewildered at how and why these events have occurred to mess up your life, you may begin to search, not only for the cause behind those events, but for the meaning that might be behind them. In this scenario, you are experiencing what it is like to have crucial support taken away from you, allowing you to intimately understand what you did to another when you stole what they needed to live a flourishing life. This type of karma is sometimes referred to as self-karma because it is not brought about by the direct manipulation of another person but by an agreement you made with your higher self to understand the ramifications of undermining or destroying another’s life options.
Unemployment as Prima Facie Evidence of Karma Given the above, I could conclude that I might be in the midst of self-karma. Alternatively, I’m receiving direct payback from former employers, reflecting past actions of mine towards them. If stressful circumstances are always a sign of karma, unemployment becomes a forced restoration by my employers, repossessing what I once denied them: livelihood. That’s one possible answer to why I lost my job. But other facets exist. Perhaps karma is not involved at all. The immediate reason given, downsizing, often points to a complexity that encompasses more than a simple explanation.
How to Know If It’s Karma How do we determine when karma is at work? I don’t believe there is any way we can know beyond the shadow of a doubt that we have entered karmic territory. Still, when you feel as though you have stepped into the twilight zone – meaning that the status quo of your life peels away unbidden to reveal strange images, dimensions or new insights, or time seems to slow down and even freeze, or there’s nothing you can do to convince the other party of your good intentions, then you might be in the zone of karmic payback. Other things may also be happening that have nothing to do with karma and are not the subject of this discussion; however, it is sufficient to say that karma can manifest similarly to what I’ve just described.
However, the proof of release from the karmic pudding ultimately comes down to this: you will know when a karmic tie has been released when the charge of the situation is gone. You no longer feel compelled to remain in a relationship with someone, or at a job that was replete with unsolvable issues, because after the restoration has occurred, you begin to feel calm, balanced, and neutral about the whole thing – that is, after you are done processing your human reaction. It is as if you have awakened from a long nightmare, and you know you are now in your right mind because the fever that once held you in its thrall has finally broken. At this point, it is a matter of choice whether you walk away (assuming you haven’t been irrevocably dismissed) or stay to create a new, healthier configuration that all parties agree to take to a higher level.
Signs of the Times Sometimes it isn’t the karma of the immediate parties that is in play. It could be the signs of the times, that is, the historical context that everyone shares, and which is the common denominator to which everyone, regardless of station, status, creed, race, or gender, is subject. According to a July 28, 2013, article, Survey: 4 in 5 face near-poverty, no work (published online at TPMLIVEWIRE by Hope Yen), “Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data…points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.” From another article: “The vast majority of people in the United States will experience poverty and economic insecurity for a significant portion of their lives.” For the statistics behind that statement, see Gary Lapon’s article, Poor Prospects in a ‘Middle-Class’ Society, August 18, 2013, published in the online magazine Truthout.
Without too much argument, I think we can agree that national and world affairs are an inextricable superimposition on the course of our lives, mixing their enormous bandwidth into the much smaller frequencies of our own. We barely need to raise our heads to see that fracking, the broken nuclear reactors of Fukushima, the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, ethnic genocide, human sex trafficking, and many, many more life-ravaging actions have a reach and impact far broader and deeper than any personal karma could hope to claim. These acts are karma against the entire planet, generated intentionally on an incomprehensibly large scale by the abusive politics of power.
The Global Karmic Pandemic of 2020 In 2020, the entire planet found itself at the mercy of a pandemic caused by a new virus, SARS-CoV-2. Some believe this virus was cultivated through the imbalances resulting from the cruel and unconscionable ways human beings treat animals and the environment. The extreme physical cruelty that caged animals in wet markets and factory farms endure affects their immune system. Forced to live in filth and lacking health and freedom, they become easy hosts to bacteria, parasites, and viruses, which quickly overwhelm their bodies. These malefic entities easily pass to humans (and then the animals get blamed and subjected to inhumane wholesale slaughter). When you consider that these beings have emotions, live in constant terror, and endure horrific pain, it is clear that the damage done is multi-dimensional with far-reaching effects and is nothing short of sacrilegious.
There is also a belief that this virus originated in a laboratory. Regardless of its origins, one must consider that the actions taken to create it or cause it to be manifested reveal a disrespect for life, including a disregard for the impact on the planet as a whole.
The effect of this virus, whether one wants to call it karmic or not, is nevertheless karmic in its impact. When I first wrote this article in 2013, the number of people suffering from unemployment was far, far fewer. Yet each one of those people suffered no differently from those whose multiple sufferings are directly related to unemployment. At the time, the numbers were not enough to influence change in federal and state policies. Now the numbers are striking — off the charts — and yet Congress must argue and delay taking obvious action to do what needs to be done. They must do their job and take care of their people, or add yet another straw to the unraveling of the structures that support the lives and well-being of human beings. Not doing what you have been tasked to do with the explicit power to do so, especially at the level that can make or break civilization, creates karma.
The Destruction that DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) Wrought In 2025, the new administration’s actions resulted in a blindside ‘cleansing’ of multiple departments in the federal government, leading to thousands of people losing their jobs. Most of these departments were already understaffed, making their ‘cleansing’ severely crippling. Some departments were shuttered entirely. The eradication crusade against ‘waste,’ ‘fraud,’ and ‘abuse’ included demanding that law firms, universities, and individuals exercising their right to free speech restrict their businesses and activities to comply with new rules. Legal scholars universally regard these new rules as unconstitutional, but the consequences for violating them have been severe. Although the majority of lower courts have ruled that these actions are unlawful and unfounded, the administration continues to pursue its objectives in defiance of these rulings. The Supreme Court has vetted the racial profiling of brown people and people with accents. The Department of Homeland Security’s ICE forces are responsible for the violent assaults and detention in squalid hellholes of thousands, including pregnant women and children.
What is this about? Human beings have a dark nature that desires to conquer, subdue, and exclude. Conquering has also often meant breaking and destroying systems and structures that, despite not being perfect, nevertheless cobbled together processes that supported humanitarian goals. There is nothing sacred when this nature is unleashed. Think of the Dust Bowl effect, the swarming of ravening locusts, tornadoes, or hurricanes. Has the karma of the United States, whose founding fathers were wealthy white slaveowners, come home to roost? Are we being shown that democracy, voting rights, and equal opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice were always tenuous? And are they tenuous because these were never solidly based on the genuine belief that all people are created equal and all have the same right to a life where they can actualize themselves? The truth behind all the lies is being brutally revealed on a giant screen that everyone can see, and will hopefully inspire the necessary corrections and restorations to be addressed.
It is very likely that when so much breaks and falls apart, our karma has caught up with us.
Karmic Impact, Delays, and Detours It is not sustainable to be repeatedly knocked down in the name of paying back karma. It doesn’t make sense to continually remove a person’s livelihood, leaving them unable to fulfill their life tasks and agreements. In other words, it may not be karma that is at work. When we painstakingly created the agenda for the current incarnation, we agreed to address our karma – working through past unbalanced painful situations with others, the working out of our own self-karmas — as well as our dharma-through the continuing expansion of our souls. We do this by surrendering to experience, including specific life tasks, agreements, facilitating and mentoring others, relationships, upgrading old skills and learning new ones, and stepping up into a larger (or smaller) game, to name a few. To fulfill both karma and dharma, we bring through the themes of a dozen or so past lives that are consonant with the themes of our current life. The goal is to realize ourselves more fully.
But things don’t always work out as planned. Sometimes we have to fill in the gaps, creating and re-creating from scratch. We can experience delays, detours, or reroutes. Sometimes there’s a deliberate abdication by those who agreed to help us. And, life isn’t set in stone. The best-laid plans of the wisest souls are still subject to the slings and arrows of unpredictable fortune – accidents and other people’s choices.
When your efforts to make yourself at home are repeatedly obstructed, it could be because you are presenting yourself for membership in a tribe whose tasks and agreements are not in alignment with yours. They will not recognize who you are or what you have to offer. This is true even if you function competently in their environment. The phenomenon that occurs in these instances is a lack of familiarity at the soul level and a lack of agreements of various kinds, including work agreements, facilitation agreements, mentor agreements, and opportunity agreements, among others. The phenomenon of lacking agreements makes one a foreigner. And although foreigners can be seen as attractive because they are different, those same differences can also be perceived as threatening and even repulsive. If you find yourself in a workplace where you experience constant abrasion, and the tribe is busy creating “evidence” to support their low opinion of you, it is time to leave. It is not likely you will be able to convince anyone of your value. You may consider that what is at work here is a form of self-karma in which who you are is ironically mirrored back to you by reflecting who you are not.
However, finding yourself in situations like this doesn’t always mean that you are working against your own agreements. It might mean that, or it might mean that the community that holds your agreements is not available. Your creativity and willingness to participate wherever you find yourself are essential to keeping the threads of your life from unraveling. Sometimes it is necessary to make things up as we go. The upside is that we develop mastery in flying by the seat of our pants, using our own initiative and wits to keep body and soul together.
The Larger Context We all live within a context that has been shaped and is being shaped by capitalism gone wrong. Those of us who know better make no bones about this – human beings have created a political and economic civilization built on the belief in power-over, competition, and the “survival of the fittest.” This paradigm is pervasive, and even if one sees right through it, we as individuals are still left to deal with its consequences. Without a cultural belief that embraces the right of everyone to the tree of life, which includes making available the financial resources and opportunities to allow individuals to bring forth their best contributions, each one of us is on their own. Some of us have family and friends who can, from time to time, help bridge the gaps, but many do not. Even so, without a larger societal support structure that recognizes the grave reality of unemployment and resulting poverty, the suffering of millions will continue. These comments are also meant to include the handicapped, the aging, the lesser skilled, and those who suffer from debilitating physical or mental issues. Their entry into the “game” is even more severely circumscribed.
The reality is that for most of us, our voices are limited, and our contributions are often undervalued. Nevertheless, we cannot give up or surrender. We must believe in our right to be here and in the necessity of fulfilling our unique purposes. It is essential to recognize a universal truth: without our full participation, the evolution of life and the Tao itself will be hindered.
These times demand collective courage and a willingness to dig deeper to make a difference. We need to be aware of how our personal contributions contribute to injustice and inequality, recognizing where our words and actions may be thoughtless or unkind. Individually, we must strive to live righteous lives with conscious awareness. By doing so, we can help mitigate the consequences of both individual and collective karma.
These times also call for the creation of a community that takes its directives from an ideology that fearlessly declares: We are all one; it is unthinkable to leave anyone behind.
How we recover from disappointment, shock, and loss depends on the meaning we assign to those experiences. If we see ourselves as powerless victims, recovery will be slow or stalled. When we believe happiness is behind us, we lose hope and energy. The fundamental difference between resignation and a joyful life is having something meaningful to look forward to.
Transitioning from resignation to passion starts with believing in something worth living for. A sense of purpose, aligned with your highest calling, reignites hope. When you embrace your agency, you partner with life and renew your drive to create and engage.
But, you say, I don’t have anything to live for. I’ve explored my interests as far as I can with the resources and circumstances I currently have. Nothing seems compelling anymore. All right, then. It’s time to take a new approach, starting by reclaiming your power to revive your passion.
Let us begin here: from where you sit,
What do you have too much of?
What do you have too little of?
What would you enjoy having more of?
What would you like to have less of, or be rid of altogether?
What skills and capacities do you need to cultivate to have more of what you desire?
What disciplines do you need to support those skills and capacities?
Answering these questions clarifies what empowers or disempowers you. This awareness fosters empowerment and revives passion, reconnecting you to meaningful action. Passion fuels your creativity and restores your sense of purpose and power.
Your interest in pursuing anything may have faded. You may feel that you’ve made an effort to follow your path and applied your resources, but if the results have disappointed, you may have given up, living with resignation and inertia. While you meet your basic needs, life may now lack excitement.
To regain engagement, release regrets about past choices. Instead, treat each day as an opportunity to answer your calling. Focus on activities that feel meaningful, taking small steps without needing immediate answers. By responding to what draws you, your life’s purpose will gradually emerge.
By listening to your intuition, you’ll be able to take the next step more effectively. You don’t need to wait for inspiration. Act on what you know is true for you, and you’ll soon remember your passion and reconnect with your path.
It seemed I dozed on the periphery for a long time. I observed the coming and going of weather, the seasonal hum of insects and flowers, and the blooming and withering of all things. Of all things, that is, that I could see and had the capacity to comprehend.
There was a time when I believed I had very little say about my life. There was a time when I thought I had no authority to confront not just the challenges but also the horrific experiences I endured as a child. As a child, I thought that’s just the way things were; that’s just how life is. Later, as the daughter of impoverished immigrants who did not speak English as their first language, I continued to find many reasons to support my impression that I was a victim of circumstances. I thought my lot in life was destined to be one of severe limitations. As children, we are dependent. We have not come into ourselves and do not yet possess the same powers of self-awareness, intellect, and ferocity that we do as adults. It is easy to make meaning about what life is, and to hold on to that meaning because it made so much sense at the time. I did, however, come in with an insatiable curiosity to understand both etiology and causation. This deep need to KNOW how everything comes together was compelling enough to keep me going where I might have otherwise given up. This is not to say that I do not, from time to time, retreat. Inevitably, something always kicks my ass and forces me to get up off the ground.
I was compelled to engage. After all, I had to eat to live. I had to dress for warmth and protection. I had to go to school and interact, to some greater or lesser extent, with the other children. At night, I entered the realm of dreams, where I created relationships and formed strange connections with the inhabitants of different worlds and dimensions. Gradually, all my experiences—those from quiet observation and those from intentional participation—merged and integrated. Through this integration, they offered me perspective: a handle I could grab, a kind of anchor I could attach myself to. By simply being—whether here or in other, less tangible locations—I was inevitably led to carve out a consciousness that is uniquely mine.
That unique perspective, consciousness, and idiosyncratic way of perceiving and holding experience—and then communicating it back—is what led me to exactly where I am. Because I chose to stay alert and aware — kicking and screaming some of the time to be sure — no moment I spent sleeping or awake has been wasted. The total of all I have gathered, and all that has blasted itself against me, is what I bring to this moment. It is the same for all of us. These are the things that give us shape and form, that bring us to who we are.
Over time, I came to realize that I am an integral and inseparable part of all that is. The All That Is is the most potent, dignified, and infinitely creative and loving force. It holds all possibilities. Even if I possess just one drop of that power, just one morpheme of that capacity, nothing can stop me from becoming. For I am Tao’s pioneer, its very own reconnaissance agent.
So how can I not see myself as the Source of my experience? The more I accept full responsibility for being the creator of my own life, the more I download my true inheritance. The more I can flow with what is and what happens—not just deflecting blows but dancing with them—the more I can step into my capacity to create my life. Even though many events truly appear to be the result of other people’s choices, it is most empowering to be willing to be wholeheartedly accountable for all of it. By accepting unconditional responsibility for everything that has ever happened to us, we become the masters of our own lives.
Now it is time to step into who I am. It is time to fully open to the next level of beingness that life wishes to express through me, and to take it on with everything I have. I have only a glimmer of what I am about to embark on, but I am filled with the desire to pursue this journey. I know that, in this process, all of who I came here to be will have the opportunity to be unleashed. Welcome to the most unprecedented experience of my life.
At the still point of the turning world we are still, spinning.
Shooting threads of light, finer than rainbow gossamer, diaphanous and delicate beyond measure, yet stronger than this life we know– by far. And these threads are a matrix of interwoven endless
tapestries
that breathe and move and dance,
twining themselves through universes beyond our imaginings.
But there is so much more that we cannot begin to grasp.
There are worlds beyond our knowing.
There are mysteries
beyond our ability to experience.
And if we were to experience those mysteries,
we could not,
as we currently are,
grasp them.
It is important to live in the here and now,
in the moment.
For it is in the moment that infinity speaks,
and we hear our own god voices.
In the cracks and interstices of no past, no present,
and no future,
we come to know ourselves.
Coming into the zone of time, we then forget.
We are defined, described, prescribed and re-scribed as we
make our way through the fragile form of living days.
We breathe the dust.
We are the earth.
We lose our trust in things eternal
mesmerized into believing
this is what we are,
this is all that is.
Even so –
we are shaped and formed into delicate
dimensional existence. And then,
waves and vectors sweep our way, casting us out, drawing us in.
Probabilities come and go.
The pending sometimes never arrives.
We are ordered from chaos,
made up in part of
numerology,
psychology,
astrology,
human design,
biology,
design,
soul age,
essence role,
overleaves,
and so on,
and so on.
Each of these bring us to our lessons; they give us our unique
perspectives and our talents.
These energies humble us, shake us up, and wake us up.
We can remember who we are because of them.
But: WE ARE NOT THEM.
They are the props in our personal play.
They cast us in a special role;
one we’ve longed to play, one we’ve died again and again to play,
so that we could re-unite with our ultimate selves.
But they are only our lessons, our path for the now, and our glory for
and through
the Zone of Incarnation.
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The dominant cultural message tells us our worth is based on appearance, status, success, and recognition, making life harsh for many. This world is marked by limitation. Here, actions have consequences, and choices yield results; therefore, we naturally seek ways to gain positive recognition and security.
Physical life is enjoyable when our basic needs are met. When they aren’t, feelings of worthlessness arise, but facing these challenges may reveal the potential for inner fulfillment.
Some believe that life divides us into winners and losers, attributing success solely to individual choices and efforts. This mindset overlooks individual contexts and experiences.
Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that I must earn my worthiness or right to be here, and that the only way to do this is to attend the best schools, wear the finest clothes, possess an Ivy League degree, and have a substantial income? Are you saying that if I don’t have the right stuff, I might as well slide under a rock, curl up in a ball, and wait for death to take me?
Many accept their personal truths, but mine is different. My life, shaped by my unique path and purpose, diverges from the mainstream. I am not alone in this.
Everyone faces different limitations, which can create confusion and questions about survival and worth, urging us to rise or fall.
What appears true may not be; your experience, actions, and meaning-making define your life. Live with authenticity.
While we are connected, we are also diverse. We are none of us the same. We are profoundly unique and individual, and what we have to offer is exceptional as well.
We each have unique contributions. Not everyone is destined for conventional achievements; all are called to meaningful journeys that leave a lasting impact on others.
