What Are You?

Einstein once said that the most important question you can ever ask yourself is, "Is the world friendly or unfriendly?"

Put another way, "Do you believe life happens TO you, or THROUGH you?"

I believe it must happen through you, that there is no other possible means for life to occur. That is, you are the sole architect of all your experiences, from your birth to your death. There are few who would argue that you are in NO way responsible for your life, that you are quite literally a pinball scattered about by physics, or God, or Zeus, but far more would argue that SOME of life happens to you, and that you are responsible for the rest.

I say, no. It is all or nothing. There is a long argument to be had around this question, and I will not have it here, but consider this: What is your life? Is your life what HAPPENS or what you FEEL after, or while, something happens?

If you were handed a million dollars, you would say - Oh, my life is changed. The million dollars changed my life! But no. The million dollars only changed your life if you decide to spend it. If you don't touch it, it is as meaningless as any other piece of paper. I knew a man once for whom this was true. He died in a very unhappy state, quite alone, and yet his car was filled with uncashed checks. He was worth at least a million dollars. Yet he would not even bring himself to touch it.

Likewise, let us say you have met someone and you believe they would be your perfect mate. And yet, sadly, they are not interested in you. "Oh, cruel life!" But no. What you wanted was not actually THAT person, but the FEELING you believed that would come as a result of that relationship. That feeling is not dead. That feeling is still possible with another person, for in fact, because you never had the relationship with the first person, the feeling was only something you had imagined. You were creating an IDEA of how you wanted to live; it just had not manifested yet in the first person you met that seemed to match that manifestation.

Life happens through you. Your life is what you are feeling about what is happening to you. You are the creator. You are, in fact, God, ever creating and creating and creating. You cannot stop if you wanted to, for you will no doubt go on creating once you have left this body. Every idea is a creation, every fantasy, every thought. Nothing has ever been done that has not been thought first. Thought is the beginning of all life; thought is life itself.

What do you think?