Between I and I

What is life? Life is life. Life is you and I. Life is about the relationship or the association between us and other creatures in accordance with the Will of Almighty God. Life is sweet, life is bitter; it can be bittersweet but not tasteless. What makes life bitter or sweet is how the individual relates to his neighbor and how he puts himself in accord with the Will of God. In other words, give your neighbor sincere, unconditional love, and your God obedience and total submission to His will and you obtain a sweet unalloyed life. Give the reverse, then a bitter and a confused life will be the consequence. Recognizing and to be in accord with God’s Will makes life, which is unpredictable, with its twists and turns, its difficulties and bitterness, easy to understand and to live. However, you cannot achieve this unless you know yourself. Self-knowledge would make you understand that life is like wine, both of which need moderation to be of good value. You drink moderately as you must live with moderation. Self-knowledge would make you understand that this life is the testing place where you purify your soul through suffering. Self-knowledge would make you understand that pain, suffering, hardship, kindness, consideration and failures teach you lessons. Whereas, easy and soft life, slothfulness, sin, indolence, complacency and success teach not. Self-knowledge will make you know that life is like a string on a guitar. If you do not stretch it well enough, there would be no sound and no harmony. If you stretch it too much, it would break - no harmony is produced. You have to find the middle way in life to live harmoniously. This harmonious life is man’s ultimate search in life. Man is forever in search of the most difficult thing in life, the most elusive and the most desired - Peace of mind! &