My spiritual teacher, Rudi told me many years ago: “You never serve people, just God.”

The flighty, flimsy, unstable nature of people is like water flowing through one’s hands. You never know from day to day whether they love you or hate you. It’s the same emotion twisted into many different shapes.

The only stable relationship we have on earth is with God, but we’re blinded by mental, emotional and sexual needs and we think external entities are going to fill them. It’s a divine joke … a labyrinthian maze we crawl through as we try to make sense of a senseless world.

This is not cosmic despair. It’s the ability to see life’s absurdity and laugh at it, the ability to live in the the labyrinth and never think it’s real.

We can only enjoy life when we free ourselves from it. If we believe it’s real, the pain is too great and the heaviness too severe for us to ever get off the merry-go-round. Most people have to stay on the merry-go-round. It’s their karma, their evolutionary “status,” what they are ready for in this lifetime … a sad truism that haunts the world. It takes thousands of lifetimes to learn the simplest of things: nothing’s real until we open our hearts and are able to laugh at ourselves, till we feel joy and love and see God’s playground for what it is … a place where our opinions and judgements mean nothing … where sense and senselessness stumble together through the darkest corners of the human mind.

The earth is a place we have to wake up from. It’s a place that reminds us over and over again: nothing is permanent or stable if we listen to our minds and egos and let them guide us from day to day. We succumb to “maya” … to the endless rounds of coming and going and suffering. We convince ourselves the grain of sand we call life has more importance than a half hour episode on day time TV. One day, we all leave the earth … then the dramas of daily living become vague memories in the minds of people who once fought with us … and also held us dear.

All that’s left is embracing God. Then sense and senselessness disappear in harmony and balance and we can enjoy our lives.