Understanding the Game of Life Better…

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. - Anais Nin

Imagine you were born in a vast, dimly lit cave, where everything, including the people around you, appears to be a dull gray. All you can see are shadows and darkness, and the fine detail you’re so keenly want to find seems to elude you. As you grow up, you find that your life is strongly regulated by the “Book of Rules”, an ancient proclamation that controls even your most secret thoughts.  No-one can tell you where this “Book of Rules” is, and you discover that very few have even seen it for themselves.

You also learn that, somewhere high up in the cave, there is an opening in its roof that radiates a strange light. It is a forbidden place, guarded by ferocious animals below and fearful unknown entities above, so that no one has ever truly investigated where the hole might lead.

Later in life, your curiosity and your silent wish for a better environment finally spur you into action. Somehow, you manage to get past the vicious animals guarding the hole, and to avoid death, you quickly clamber up beyond their growling and snapping, and tumble headlong into the strange brightness outside.

When your eyes finally adjust, you discover a new world, full of colors, sounds and fragrances, and you vow never to return to the darkness of the cave again…

This website, How Life Really Works, is about stepping into the light to live a life of meaning, purpose, passion.  Let’s start by finding out how to change our life for the better…

“Most people consider life a battle — but it is not a battle, it is a game.” — Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940)

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” — Anais Nin

“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding life on Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.” — Buckminster Fuller

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” — George Washington Carver

“Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“People do not live nowadays – they get about ten percent out of life.” — Isadora Duncan

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” — Joan Baez

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“I’ve looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know life at all.” — Joni Mitchell

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