We all look for the answers about how to live a successful and happy life. What is the meaning of our life? What should we do while here? This is a completely normal and natural quest.

There is, however, some words of wisdom that you might want to consider. And here it is: There is no Answer to Life!

We spend our lives looking for the answer. You know, the answer that will make us happy, whole, satisfied, successful. So we find an answer, like one the Buddha gave us. He said grasping is at the root of all suffering. So we then work hard to conquer desire and grasping in our lives.

We try to make detachment the answer to everything. But it isnt. It doesnt work that way. Grasping and attachment are just part of an answer. They are not the whole answer. Nothing is the whole answer.

You can spend years of your life trying to kill off desire within yourself and all the while you are full of the Desire to kill off desire. After several months or years of this you figure it out and go Oh well, I guess killing off desire and attachment is not the answer, not the smart thing to do, so Ill look for another answer

This pattern occurs over and over in our lives. We think love is the answer. Or spirituality. Or financial success. Then we work hard to have more love or holiness or money in our lives. Only to find it doesn’t end up making us live happily ever after.

Here is a useful wisdom secret. All answers are only partial truths. Any answer can not be the whole truth. So if you feel strongly that being more loving is your answer, good! Go to work on that for a while. But just don’t expect love to solve everything. It won’t! And don’t burden love with that expectation!

So understand this. Any answer you find to living happily ever after will only be temporary. Partial. Not the whole thing. That’s because life doesn’t need to be solved or answered. Start to be okay with living in the question. Start to be okay not knowing or even needing an answer. There’s more to this, but this can be a good beginning.