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The following was taken from a chapter from the best selling “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle.  The book is so amazing in making you awaken to your purpose in life. I read it a few years ago but just happened to pick it up again and it fell open to exactly this page so I decided to post it.

At some point in their lives, most people become aware that there is not only birth, growth, success, good health, pleasure and winning, but also loss, failure, sickness, old age, decay, pain and death.  Conventionally these are labelled “good” and “bad”, order and disorder.  The “meaning” of people’s lives is usually associated with what they term the “good”, but the good is continually threatened by collapse, breakdown, disorder, threatened by meaningless and the “bad”, when explanations fail and life ceases to make sense.  Sooner or later disorder will erupt into everyone’s life no matter how many insurance policies he or she has.  However, the eruption of disorder into a person’s life, and the resultant collapse of a mentally defined meaning, can become the opening into a higher order.

This is illustrated in the story of a wise man who won an expensive car in a lottery.

His family and friends were very happy for him and came to celebrate.  “Isn’t it great!” they said.  “You are so lucky.”  The man smiled and said, “Maybe.”  For a few weeks he enjoyed driving the car.  Then one day a drunken driver crashed into his new car at an intersection and he ended up in the hospital, with multiple injuries.  His family and friends came to see him and said, “That was really unfortunate.”  Again the man smiled and said, “Maybe.”  While he was still in the hospital, one night there was a landslide and his house fell into the sea.  Again his friends came the next day and said, “Weren’t you lucky to have been here in hospital.”  Again he said, “Maybe.”

The wise man’s “maybe” signifies a refusal to judge anything that happens.  Instead of judging what is, he accepts it and so enters into conscious alignment for the mind to understand what place or purpose a seemingly random event has in the tapestry of the whole.  But there are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation.  The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.  If you wanted to trace back the cause of any event, you would have to go back all the way to the beginning of creation.  The cosmos is not chaotic.  The very word cosmos means order.  But this is not an order the human mind can ever comprehend, although it can sometimes glimpse it.

Makes sense?  Who am I to judge!