The 55 Concepts: Self Help Article Series
By Michael Cavallaro
The Meaning of Life
The meaning of life is a controversial subject. The subject can be perceived at several different levels. Here we will address three levels of perception about the meaning of life.
Personal Level
Human Level
Spiritual Level
Personal Level
This level is what life means to you the individual and how your personal life looks to you. It is about what you want life to be and how you are attempting to create it. This would involve intimate relationships, careers and any form of personal endeavor. This would also include what you are trying to experience or "get out of" your personal endeavors. These things might be emotional, mental or spiritual. In this area would also be included the influences of your personal belief systems, family patterns and the emerging wishes of your spirit/true self.
Human Level
With this level your consciousness expands. This perspective is that of you being a human being personally and the perspective of all humanity as a collective. At this level you are aware of how your personal behaviors and choices affect the collective consciousness of all of humanity and the greater purpose of being human. This includes personal human responsibility and choices that are based on this perspective.
This would include being a humanitarian at some level, having compassion for other human beings in spite of your personal judgments. Having the awareness of the planet Earth as a being in her own right, respecting that and doing what you can as a human being to care for her is part of this consciousness. This may be reflected in doing things out of respect to her and what she provides for you as a human being such as food, shelter, the beauty of nature, water etc. This respect is done from the perspective of your inner appreciation for what the Earth provides you not out of the attitude of what you are doing wrong and how you are destroying the environment.
The more involved human being does things out of the inner knowing and appreciation of all life. There is also an understanding of your personal guardianship of the earth as a human being. There is also an awareness to provide a living example to other human beings by the way you live your life, through conscious choice.
Spiritual Level
This expands your consciousness to an even greater level and encompasses the other two levels. This is the perspective of your spirit, your higher aspect or divine self in relation to the divine plan of the Creator. Here you see a much larger picture than is possible from the human or personal levels. This awareness allows you to see that your human and personal experiences are simply for the joy of your Spirit/Holy Spirit so it may enjoy the worlds of form.
Your spirit is here to enjoy the human experience through the personal experiences of the human individual identity. Your spirit understands that there is no judgment there is only divine creation and experience. There is an understanding that the human and personal level experiences are limited and do not see the whole picture. Therefore the human and personal level experiences often get confused and forget their origin. Your spirit knows this and patiently awaits your human and personal return to the consciousness of the greater whole. At the spirit level there are no shortcomings, there is only love and benevolence grace.
As you move through the evolutionary ladder from personal to human to spirit there is a great change in perspective and in seeing a larger picture. At each level there is a seemingly different truth and understanding. When you attain the consciousness of your spirit you see all of the levels in a different light. You also can understand that each level there are multiple truths and multiple understandings for each individual as they so experience them. This is why there is no one truth for everyone at the personal or human level. There is always the same truth at the spirit level.
You're meaning of life is defined by you at your personal or human level. At the spirit level it is the same for everyone which may be hard for your personality to understand. Do not determine your meaning of life through what you have read or others have told you. Do not follow others' paths or experiences and make them your own. Be your own individual unique expression of spirit. You decide what you're meaning of life is. You decide how and what you want to experience in your human existence this is your birthright as a divine human being. You are all angelic beings, divine humans and you may create any experience you wish. Free yourself from your limitations and you will remember who you really are. This will then be "you're meaning of life."
© Michael Cavallaro 2010
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