I used to believe that I wanted to become famous until I found the idea grotesque. Grotesque in so far that I realised the previous ideology shaping my beliefs were contrived.

Fame or the necessity of want of fame derives from requirements of want of “greatness”. “Want of greatness” is prevalent among the young and certain portions of society.

I want to feel great; you want to feel great; we all want to feel great. But are we great?

Try something:-
Close your eyes, tell yourself you’re great. Then ask yourself WHY you’re great?
How long did it take to reach an answer? I’m not suggesting, instead wondering if it took longer than expected to reach the answer?

Greatness on its own is a label with no contents; a pie without a filling. “Greatness” itself is based on ‘meaning’. We feel great = we have a meaning. Meanings make us feel great.

Levels of “greatness” are attributed to how meaningful something is to us personally. The greater the meaning, the “greater” the reason for “greatness” behind it. (if that makes sense)

“Greatness” fuels fame. It’s an oil that lubricates an engine that drives a machine.

Fame gives us meaning. We feel loved, we feel special, we’re adored; we’ve found what we’ve been looking for, but in the wrong place. Those who achieve fame are lucky enough to know this experientially, but for most, fame is elusive and so illusion continues.

Meaning is in what we do, not how we perceive matters. How we do something means something to us, not how we achieve it. Re-read this, it’s a bit strange.

We need to be honest about what makes us feel better. Will the amount of people I know or the amount of people I serve make me feel better?
Or rather:-
(1) You’re on the front cover of every magazine, everyone knows who you are.
(2) Your granny needs your help hanging out her washing, are you going to help her?

Which of the statements feels stronger?

Love will always motivate the strongest. Why? Because it is the stronger inherent force, or rather, it derives from a stronger current of power. Power = truth.

Most of the time we are not honest with ourselves, we spend far too little time understanding or acknowledging the motives for our actions.

Action precipitates thought, thought precipitates motive?
Or perhaps:- Action requires thought, thought needs action and motives generate.
(The generators are the ‘meanings’)

Think about why it is you do what you do, then ask yourself why you are great.

The greater the motive for doing something, the greater the necessity behind it. Do not be fooled by contrived ideologies of “greatness”, they are purely meanings looking for existence.

We choose meaning, we don’t find it.
This is a paradox. Of course we find meaning, in life we are always finding meaning, but take away the events, people and conversations and sit alone in a quiet room and find meaning. You won’t find any, there isn’t any; there is only pure consciousness which is directly experienced.

When we are driven by needs and wants there is always a meaning because we are trying to get “that” in order to be “this”, achieve “this” in order to be “that”. In a nutshell, we are striving for something – “an end”.

When you take away the needs and wants, each moment becomes alive to what it inherently is, a “moment” and whatever you ascribe to that moment is your decision. You can take another route and experience that moment as a direct experience. The direct experience you experience can differ according to the level and state of consciousness /awareness dominant in that moment.

Life is a moment to moment existence and there is no meaning to anything apart from what you give it. Each moment in itself does not provide any meaning, so it’s useless trying to look for it. Events, conversations, books, experiences – all provide meaning, but to try and look into the glass without a reason and hope to find something, isn’t going to work.

If we remove all the needs and wants and sit in the empty room, after long enough, we may then decide to apply some meaning. We create a meaning. We decide what is important to us, what we would like to experience, what holds our interest, something we would like to encounter and so we begin our meaning and the whole process starts.
We go out into the world armed with our meaning and find an adventure.

It’s once we begin the adventure that the meaning really starts to take on meaning.