No Answer

"There ain't no answer.
There ain't going to be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
That's the answer."

-- Gertrude Stein

Whether we're consciously aware of it or not, we're all looking for the answer. The answer to "What's it all about, Alfie?" The answer to the meaning and purpose of, the reason for, life.

But entertain in your mind for a moment the possibility that perhaps there isn't one. No answer. No reason, no purpose, no meaning. What if life just is? What if you just are? No cognitive, theological or theoretical underpinnings, just mere naked existence.

Scary or freeing? Or both?

In the Land of No Answer, the search is over. Self-improvement dead in the water. Enlightenment a quaint concept. Isness rules! This is it. The past is meaningless. The future, a mere figment of your imagination.

How do you "properly" live if there is no answer, if even the search for the answer is absurd? You breathe in, and then breathe out. You take each moment as it comes. You let life unfold. You're not dumb as a stump. In fact, you're more awake, more alive, more aware -- you're just no longer a seeker. The questioning look in your eyes vanishes. You're not looking for a guru, an expert, the next self help tome. You're just alive, just you.

Today's a great day to get comfortable in your own skin, in your own mind, in your own Spirit. It begins with relaxing and letting go. Letting go of your need for an answer. Letting go of the search for an answer and being, just being, right here, right now.