On Being Certain

Sri Ramakrishna, the sage of  Dakshineswar, used to say that there is one instant when God laughs at the naïveté of us humans and that is when a doctor promises the worried mother of a sick child that everything will be just fine. We just don't know what turn the events in our life will take. Similarly, as a spiritual path traveler, I would never have the audacity to tell anyone that we can predict anything. (The irony being that in my professional life it is my job to forecast events and markets.) The one promise I would have for you though, if you are connected to the Tao, you have the right to know why these things are happening to you. Our spiritual journey is one of giving meaning to the world we experience. Even death has a meaning, especially when you recognize the same soul in the eyes of a little child years later.