The Existential Imperative
Your highest goal, your Imperative in life is to maximize your BE-FEEL of
ESSENCE, which is to return to BEing the ONE, again. This is the deepest and
strongest motivation of your existence—whether you recognize this or not.
Who You Are is no laughing matter, but rather the most serious thing in your
existence.
The only motivation of all human behavior is one's own happiness; to avoid pain and reach happiness.
All your problems in life arise when you do not know what you are seeking to do
in life, or how to go about it. When you don't know, you embark on an External
Quest for happiness, as opposed to "seeking the Kingdom of Heaven within."
Look at the human race and you will see almost everyone struggling to control and
hoard external things instead of focusing on their interior life.
The Ultimate Motivation of all human behavior and effort is
to increase LIFE ESSENCE and so Return to the ONE.
Every human being tries to FEEL good, to be happy, and to avoid activations of anger, fear, grief, depression and all the other AntiLove emotions. Since how
you FEEL depends on who you BE, you are really seeking BE rather than FEEL.
This is the key to life: BEing.
All humans obey these laws at all times; there are few if any exceptions (to date, none has been found). These laws contradict the beliefs of many people that altruism
exists and that they are altruistic and sometimes self-sacrificing. How we
delude ourselves!
The truth is: Every person in every circumstance always acts for hir own
happiness as s/he understands it at that moment. S/He may have it programmed
that the happiness or well-being of another is necessary for hir own and
thus seek it for the other. But the ultimate motivation is still hir own happiness.
Even when a person seems to be sacrificing hir happiness for that of another, s/he
is still acting for hir own happiness as hir primary motivation. I am often
challenged in seminars on this law but no one has ever been able to present an
instance where it has not proven true.
The driving force of life is to control one's experience.
