Do you believe that things happen for a reason??

Answer 1

One needs to believe in something when one can't see and understand the reason.
With your question I don't need to believe that things happen for a reason, because I can observe this around me, in the world and within myself.
We can look at it in two ways: Things happen for a reason now because this is caused by created conditions in the past or things will happen because we are creating conditions now. There is always a reason. Humans have the tendency to give the fault to the happening and are not asking for any reason behind and they are hardly capable to look at themselves for a possible reason. They are used and that is so much easier, to give the reason and fault to the others, to circumstances or calling it destiny or bad luck. If it is something good what happens, then people feel good and are satisfied, if it is something that creates disappointment, because it is not like the person would like it to be, then the reason is always seen in the outside and the sufferer feels as a victim. In both cases, being a victim or getting satisfaction, the person gets ones feeling of existence out of the happening and that’s all, there is no questioning about it, going with the same attitude to the next happening.
To have a reason to look at things happening to oneself or to the world, one needs to change ones limited and primitive way to see the world and oneself. One needs to change the attitude to see oneself as the center of the world and every thing else turns around this. One has to see that we are not separated from each other and the things outside oneself. So then one will realize that what happens, even though one personally has not caused it, one still participates by having the same attitude and worldview. This is not philosophy or a ‘spiritual’ concept, this is an experience when one steps out of the limited mass consciousness with it’s worn out tracks of behavior and habits, well established and well defended.
Look for the reason and you will find it. The dilemma is that you need to look at yourself first and this is something people are not used to do and they try to avoid this with all means. To be able to question oneself and to look at oneself, one needs to do a step beyond oneself. Being identified with all ones properties: mentally, emotionally, spiritually and last not least all ones material stuff, that makes it difficult if not impossible to let go of something of all this.
So that you ask a question like this might be a start…
BeiYin

Answer 2

Yes. Sometimes we know why they happen, and then there are times it takes a while to figure out why it happened, and then there are the times when you will never know why, but I do believe that things happen for a reason even though only God knows why. They say that our lifes chart is made up for us before we come into the world, and we must learn through the hard times and the mistakes we make so we can become a better person as we near our last lifetime here on earth.

Answer 3

Yes I Do strongly believe that whatever is happening has a reason and whatever will happen will also have the same
Just imagine the Sun and its shine have a reason
the rain has its reason the day and night have there reasons
sometimes it is obvious and sometimes it dawns on us later and sometime we don't even know it bu this does not mean that here was no reason or purpose from reason if we ask our self the purpose you will find the answers easily

Answer 4

Honestly, I do believe it to be so...I may not know the reason immediately sometimes and sometimes I may never ever know, for knowing is not everything. Trusting is more important.

A pawn may not know why it's being sacrificed in the game of Chess but the move is important for the final outcome. Similar is the Game of Life and all of us are Chess Pieces having different values--some more easily disposable than the others.

I also believe there's an order in the chaos...not everything is divulged in the great scheme of things.

Answer 5

It would be nice to think so. But then I struggle with a reason why a newborn baby would have to die in an earthquake or why some kids playing football in Iraq die in a roadside bomb.
So, I think the answer is that life is random in general. Sometimes there's a reason, often there's not. We just have to try and take responsibility for our own actions and try and do what we believe is right and accept that sometimes we get it wrong and that occasionally bad things happen - and there is no answer.

Answer 6

There is always a root cause for something happening, but whether it's a sign from a higher power is highly unlikelly.

It's up to us to make the best of a situation and we often surprise ourselves by our resourcefulness to come out a better person.

Things happen for no rhyme or reason, if you believe in yourself and your abilities then it all turns out good.

Answer 7

Yes, if it was entirely up to my beliefs, then definitely, things happen for a very good reason, the reason of my beliefs. It would then be my best duty in earnest to seek out what that reason might be, as if I lay sit in the way of all things approaching, nothing might make any good sense to me, not even things within my own mind and heart, I might lose my faith. I need to see my destiny being revealed and in the light of my faith I need to see life becoming more and more meaningful.

If so then I may also find my contentment at some stage in my life, sooner or later, to see that life is not all harsh surprises or chance encounters, but a process requiring gradual exploration causing continual enrichment of both mind and soul. I would seek God in all my searches.

But if it is up to my reason alone, if reason is for reason’s sake, then the answer is negative. Then reason would be all for me to search and find. I might seek knowledge and long to perfection of my logically world. I would then try to understand all things before accepting them. But I might not end my work within the time of my life, and I might have to leave the task over to the generations to come. But life is all I have and is life just to die with an overwhelming sense of incompletion? Has it been just for those who did not know a better science in the past as we know it today?

But I think life is fair. This is part of my logic so far. This I also believe that it is. But how, I do not know. How I think and also believe that life is fair I might never understand fully, but this makes me feel right. As if life is not fair and just then, being an indispensable part of life, I am not fair and just either. If so then where is hope for me? Can then I ever know that whatever I know is right, and whatever I believe in just; that all things in my view are the right way round?

Answer 8

Yes, I firmly believe that things do happen for a reason. A reason which might be hard to understand yet a reason that'll teach us the principles of life, and somehow reveals to us the majesty of our Father. Everything that happens to us is planned by our Lord Almighty, so He just wants the best for everyone, right? And even though, all your life, you’ve accepted everything because you believed in this: everything happens for a reason. The hardest part is finding out what that reason is. And, I think, that's one of our mission in life.

Answer 9

The idea that every thing happens for a reason is terrifying. If true, then God has a really sick sense of humor. I can't imagine that a just God would condone, never mind cause, half the stuff that takes place all around us. I find it much more comforting to believe that, if there is a God, he is not at all active in our affairs. In the end, we alone are responsible for the messes we make, and it is our duty to clean them up. We alone are responsible for the good things we do as well.

Answer 10

I believe every thing happens for a reason.