To be insignificant

We struggle every day not to be insignificant; it is one of the greatest challenges of any life: to have meaning. Nevertheless, it is precisely this search for meaning which sometimes carries us to the crisis of meaninglessness, after all: what does it mean to be significant?

As they say in Landmark Education: “Life is empty and meaningless, and it is empty and meaningless that is empty and meaningless,” it is not a tongue-twister, it is an invitation to understand what I bring in today’s Heresy: we put the meaning there ourselves, every instant and every act can have a billion meanings, since no act in and of itself has meaning, not even ourselves. We are also empty and meaningless.

To try desperately each day to be significant is the main cause of stress. Not only do we want to have meaning, but a particular meaning. Letting go of this struggle to be significant is simply giving ourselves over to life as it is, to live it from the essence and to understand that we are insignificant and that is precisely the source of our freedom.

Since today’s invitation is to “let go” of so much meaning in our lives; let us be how we are from the foundation of our being: empty and meaningless—from there our souls can paint millions of colors and can continue being just as transparent as ever.