If I keep my health, have a reasonably decent marriage, live a middle class lifestyle, and die in my sleep when I am 82, people would think that I had a pretty good deal. The reason that they would think this is a good deal is that they know many people who have to live a harder life than this. Maybe they don’t keep their health, their spouse leaves them, and they have to struggle through poverty, loneliness, and pain. Comparatively speaking, my life seems like a good deal, but this is only truth because we are conditioned to have horribly low expectations.
Here is a really good deal. You’re born into a perfect world where you can get everything you need and want without doing any kind of work that you don’t enjoy just as much as you enjoy recreation. No one is ever mean to you; not even once. On the contrary, everyone you meet treats you with tremendous respect and great affection. From your first moments of consciousness your heart is aware of the touch of God’s presence and overflowing with eternal love, joy, and peace. Loneliness, fear, and pain are concepts you can grasp intellectually, but you’ve never experienced anything like that. So you go from day to day feeling perfectly satisfied and perfectly fulfilled and it never ends because your body never gets sick or begins to age. That’s a really good deal.
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