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Most
profound experience of meaningfulness
“The most profound experience of
meaningfulness coincides with the recovery
of our true identity as incarnate spiritual beings. It
is then that we are made whole. The American physicist
David Bohm saw this with great clarity:
When life as a whole is harmonious,
we don’t have to ask for an ultimate meaning, for
then life itself is this meaning. And if it isn’t,
we have to find the reason, by looking into life as a
whole, which includes the source of the stream and the
basic roots of consciousness and the thought process.
If we do this, we will generally find that a lack of
meaning of life has its root in sustained and
pervasive incoherence in our thoughts, in our
feelings, and in how we live, along with a
self-deceptive defense of the whole process against
evidence that it has serious faults.
We could say that life as a whole is grounded in the
matter of the universe and also in some subtle level that we
could call spirit, which literally is "breath" or "wind." We
have to reach this total ground to be able to live a life
that is its own meaning. If we take less than this sort of
overall cosmic approach, the meaning we find will ultimately
prove not to be a viable meaning but one that will sooner or
later break down into incoherence.”
Georg Feuerstein, Lucid Waking, Inner
Traditions International, 1997, p. 17-8
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