Contemplating The Unlimited Nature of Life

 “A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.”

This is an extremely sobering comment from Victor Frankl, concentration camp survivor and author of the book Man’s Search for Meaning.  

Put  this way, life provides no limits. We assume that there are limits because our experiences have limits. Some people tend to think that at some point suffering stops others know, through experience, that suffering can go on and on . . . Until either the sufferer snaps or changes or the world changes.

In nature the unlimited or infinite confronts us from every side through endless blue sky and innumerable stars, grains of sand, forms of life. Humans use doors, walls and locks to provide borders. Nature provides no locks, doors or borders.

Once we recognize life as infinite, we can consider the dangers and the possibilities involved. If life is infinite each moment becomes part of something larger than life, something more meaningful, something worth fighting for. There are wise actions to take and foolish actions.

Daily hassles seem to limit the infinite nature of life.  We are stopped, blocked, convinced we can’t go on. Our goals are in the same way limited depending on what we expect from life. Sometimes we are limited to what life expects from us. It is up to us to consider when life expects something from us and if it is indeed life or our own limited thinking that expects it. After all, if suffering can be unlimited then so can contentment.

Everyday, heaven knocks on the doors of our consciousness. It is up to us to break down the walls that separate us from the infinite.