The Doorway to the Meaning of Life

The Doorway to the Meaning of Life 
by Owen Waters 
 
Wandering through life looking for its meaning can be a 
heart-rending task. You begin life looking to your parents for 
meaning, then to your teachers and friends until, one day, 
you're grown-up, educated, and still clueless. 
 
You stand there, thinking that there has to be a reason why 
you're here on this earth because you are constantly haunted 
from within by a sense of knowing that a reason really does 
exist. If only you could remember what it was. 
 
At some point in your life, you look up from the hypnotizing 
clamor of daily existence and seek meaning in that which is 
above the physical realm of existence. In that moment, when 
your attention is focused on whatever higher consciousness may 
bring, you are receptive to new ideas and new information. 
 
My life has been spent in pursuit of the awareness that there 
is a whole universe of discovery within each person's higher 
awareness, just waiting to be explored. Earlier in life, when I 
was an employee, I'd often sit at my desk and drift away 
mentally into more interesting planes of awareness. Later, as a 
business owner, I was able to find quality time for some really 
deep reflection. I used to rise bright and early for a 
fascinating morning of study and meditation and then roll into 
the office, ready to begin work, at the crack of noon. 
 
Today, when people ask me about how to find the meaning in 
their lives, the first thing I do is point out the doorway to 
their own personal world of inner knowledge. The doorway is 
within your heart and it leads from the world of physical 
tumult into spiritual realms of inner peace and revelation. 
 
You have only to detach from the stress and turmoil of daily 
living to enter your own heart consciousness, feel the love 
there which patiently awaits you, and move through the doorway 
into a higher awareness. 
 
It is in that state of higher awareness that you discover the 
unique meaning of your life. It is there that you find the 
peace of mind that always eluded you. It is there that the 
light of inner wisdom joins with the love that flows freely 
throughout the universe. 
 
This union of love and light brings forth the enlightenment 
for which all sentient beings strive, and it all begins with 
unconditional love. Acceptance of yourself and everyone as you 
are, followed by gratitude for life itself and the experience 
that this life brings, opens up the doorway of the heart and 
leads onwards into the realms of self-discovery.