What Are You Doing With Your Life

What Are You Doing With Your Life? turns traditional ideas about happiness and the purpose of life on its head by diving into the details of life’s most important questions, all so you can live with intention and joy more consistently.

Think about love. What does that word bring to your mind? Whatever it is, those ideas were imprinted on you from a young age. Maybe your idea of love is a couple getting married or someone gifting their girlfriend roses.

However you see it, it was undeniably shaped by your cultural, economic, and social background. Because of this, you might have a narrow view of what love is. Have you ever considered its complexity?

This is just one example of how your conditioning stops you from seeing the complexity of things in the world. Things are constantly changing, but we tend to see the world as fixed. Our cultural background and belief systems underpin how we see everything around us.

To understand an evolving world, you need to be able to change your perspective. If you don’t harmonize yourself with the continuous changes of life, you won’t see things as they are.

If you want to look at life truthfully, learn to free yourself of grand theories and instead attempt to explain things in totality. This is hard since many people consider themselves part of an ideology or religion and we tend to force situations into our narrow worldview.

So how can we fix our worldview? Watch your mind almost like you are watching it from the outside. Then you’ll be able to fully understand how conditioning can limit how you view the world around you. Soon you’ll be able to understand your relationship with the world and be able to understand the complex and evolving problems in the world.

Everyone wants happiness in this life. For many people being happy is the whole point of living. You might want to achieve it through finding love or having a fulfilling career. The problem is, it’s really difficult to find lasting happiness. So what’s Krishnamurti’s advice? He says that when we’re kids, we have happiness easily and in simple things. We don’t really even have to try, we just find it in the activities we do. Unfortunately, the older we get, the harder it gets to experience this spontaneous happiness. So we try to get it in other ways, like pursuing prestige or money. The problem with this is that as soon as we get whatever we think we want such as a large house or our dream partner, the enjoyment we get from it is turned into a fear of losing whatever it is. You feel great falling in…