Questions to Answers

Is there a place for such things? A plane on which to exist?
Is there time for occurrences such as these? A moment of prime opportunity?
Can both Place and Time coexist for optimum possibility? Is there a probability for the intersection of the two?
When and where? Are these not the questions that continue to plague the mind?
But are these the only two? For what question is more taunting than 'How?'

Yet these have no precedence where life is concerned. Indeed these are the questions that steal the attention away from true life. So often do we bother ourselves with the things we cannot control. And, in doing so, we spend more time worrying than we do living.

This is indeed not an easy teaching, especially to a world that tells us to focus on being the god of our own world. This world tells us that if we work hard enough we can do whatever we want to. This is not possible, for there are things in this world that we cannot control; variables that even the greatest mastermind could not plan for.

This world tells us to live for tomorrow. "Prepare for tomorrow so that you will be ready.","Tomorrow every thing will be better if you do the right things today". Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
I do not say that we should completely neglect the possibility of tomorrow and spend today in our selfishness. Living in such a manner is lifeless.

Today is what we have. Live today as though it was your last. Not as though you have no responsibility for it. But live in such a way as though you will be called to count tomorrow for what you have done today.
Worrying only gives us ulcers, migranes, and frustration in things we cannot control. Irresponsibility only gives us the pain of living with the mistakes we have made, and the life we have wasted.

Existence is a prerequisite to having joy--how can you have joy if you do not exist. However, existence does not warrant joy. Joy is found in true abundant life.
Existence does not warrant life either. By life I do not mean the functioning of mind and body. For it is possible to be living lifelessly. It is possible to live a life that leaves you unsatisfied and empty. You may consume any and every appealing substance, or participate in every appealing activity and still find yourself to be empty and unsatisfied. A lifeless life is one that is driven by questions. An abundant life is not one without questions, but the questions are not what drive the life. Rather the life drives the questions.