Life Death and Beyond

Coming and Going seriously contemplates this issue, he will certainly discover this fact. He will understand what he should make the goal of his search. By birth every human being is a seeker of Paradise, the ideal world of his dreams. A human being is the seeker, and Paradise is what he seeks. A person’s success lies in knowing this truth and making Paradise his goal. Coming and Going Calvin Coolidge (1824-1933) was the 30th President of the USA. In 1924, he won the American Presidential elections with remarkable ease. The main reason for this was that he posed himself as an opponent of dangerous radicalism. It is said that when he was President a visitor once facetiously asked him who lived in the White House, the place of residence of the American President. “No one,” he replied, “they just come and go.” Calvin Coolidge gave this reply with regard to the occupants of America’s White House. But this reply applies to every other house in the world, big or small, actually. No one is going to live in their house—or in this world for that matter—forever. Here, they will just “come and go”, like the inhabitants of the White House. In this world, there is no permanent house. Every house is, as it were, a temporary guesthouse or traveller’s inn. Here, people come only in order to leave. People stay here for a while, but they cannot, despite wanting to, settle here permanently.