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16. Blog: 3^rd Dec. Oct 09

You Are Significant – So Live Accordingly

-          Laibl Wolf, Dean, Spiritgrow - The Josef Kryss Wholistic Centre, Australia

What are you?  A speck of dust in the expanse of the Cosmos? A brief sound in the symphony of creation?  A momentary flash of consciousness in a sentient eternity? A mere blip on the radar of infinity?

Hundreds of generations have lived and died. Civilizations have risen and faded. And here you are – reading a blog.  What does it mean?  What does your life mean?

The nihilists believe that life is pointless and human values worthless. The skeptics believe that real knowledge of anything is impossible. The agnostics ask questions knowing that answers are arbitrary. And fellow travelers generally don’t address any life issues and carried along by the tidal throng.

Is it possible to aspire to a life of meaning? To a life characterized by esteem and self worth? To a life perceived as an essential link in a chain – an indispensable piece of the puzzle of consciousness?

That is exactly what the tenets of Jewish wisdom teachings instruct. In the early morning, when the higher consciousness of dreams give rise to the lower consciousness of a waking world, Jews enunciate a traditional meditative  affirmation Modeh Ani . In that phrased focus there is a definitive phrase that carves out the Jewish response to meaninglessness. It states: You have restored to me my individuality, my distinctiveness, my giftedness – my own Neshama (soul). This single phrase becomes the imprimatur of life’s meaning. Yes, you count. You may be a speck, but a speck that produces an infinite multiplier effect that changes the course of history and creation. You may be a sound but you resonate and reverberate throughout the eons of time providing creation with your own set of life-notes. You may be a mere flash of consciousness, but that flash continues to shine throughout the enormity of time. And you may be a blip on a Divine radar screen, but that blip is observed as a significant positioning of your very being.

Personal significance flows from the realization that you have spiritual assets to contribute to people, life, and world. That your thoughts and feelings leave a real residue in the ether of time/space. That your actions become the spiritual building blocks of higher realms. That you count – and I, together with everyone else, am a beneficiary of your largesse, your inner beauty.

So go out into the world and practice personal leadership. Be a unique contributor to the radical act of creation. Be a true co-creator of an unfinished universe. Practice Tikkun (Cosmic repair of broken vessels) through the act of Mitzvot, the Aramaic root of which (Tzavta) which means: connectedness.  Connect with life and lives, and live a life of significance, self worth, and contribution.

Yes, you count.

   Laibl’s web site: www.laiblwolf.com                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - Laibl’s blog site: www.laiblwolf.com/blog/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                – Spiritgrow – The Josef Kryss Wholistic Center, Australia site  (soon up after extensive ‘renovation’)   www.SpiritgrowJosefKryssCenter.org