While practical goals are important, the spiritual goal is to awaken the compassion that lies at the root of all change. 'Success' doesn’t mean I’ve saved an endangered species or cleaned up a toxic waste dump or fed hungry children. Success means awakening myself in the Spirit that can help make a better life for others. Success means I have acted in the world as though I were a part of it, not apart from it. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 30, 2019
Personally, I was never a goal-driven person until I was forced by my own decisions based on self to seek other than human help...having run through all the human help I could find. Over many rough and ready roads to my Father within, I realized my path was...had ever been...toward the spiritual.
The above paragraph holds one sentence that describes my goal today, that sentence being: While practical goals are important, the spiritual goal is to awaken the compassion that lies at the root of all change.
I am convinced it is that awakened compassion that leads to a feeling of personal fulfillment, so beautifully described as: Success means awakening myself in the Spirit that can help make a better life for others.
I am happy I know this is my goal today, happier still that I am fully aware my success practicing that goal lies ahead, ever ahead. And I am grateful.
Thank you.
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