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Soul Sustenance 25-04-2013
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Analyzing Success And Failure (cont.)
For many, society has conditioned us to look for success through the path of our
career, achievements, profits, praise, financial wealth etc. That way, we have learned
a narrow view of success. Running in search of this kind of success and pursuing
it, we come to exhaust ourselves, get burnt out and depressed. In order
to achieve these successes we have stopped caring for the inner being (the soul)
and relationships. That has meant and means stress, pain, anxiety, family break
ups, personal and relational disintegrations, the destruction of the environment
and planetary and climatic imbalances. As a consequence, we feel empty. Although
we achieve the applause, the income and other successes, the soul is malnourished
and has the sensation that it is lacking something. Reaching fame, financial wealth,
the power of a visible position, and reaching it with a broken soul, broken up family
and a sick body, causes depression which explains why, in our recent history, famous
people have ended up committing suicide.
If we want to redirect our personal and collective lives toward true wellbeing and
wholeness, we have to re-evaluate and redefine our beliefs and factors that lead
to success and failure. Before asking yourself what success and failure
mean for you, it is important to be clear what context you want success in. Depending
on the context, the dimension and the meaning of success and failure will be different.
For example, in the work context, a failure will be different to that in the family
context. In the personal context or in life in general, the way of perceiving success
or failure varies.
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Message for the day 25-04-2013
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To be special means to have a gift for everyone we meet.
Projection: Usually we are ready to give physical gifts to people but when
it comes to being a giver in the form of understanding or love, we cannot always
be a giver. We usually begin to expect from others.
Solution: We need to make sure that we have a gift for everyone we meet;
it could even be a smile or a kind word. When our focus is on what we have to give,
we will be free from expectations from others. This will make us truly special.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris