I'm reading Rami Shapiro's Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent now. In the part in which he deals with the question "Why," he provocatively asks: Is 'Why' even a relevant question?
He answers by saying that, in a profound sense, 'why' is not relevant, nay, it could even be a dangerous distraction. He uses the story of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures to comment on that. When Job demands to know the 'why' of his suffering, God seems to indicate that this question is irrelevant because life is chaotic and wild while, at the same time, also oftentimes beautiful and grand. One can just stand in front of the great mystery and live it to the full with radical acceptance. ...
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