We hear a lot about worldly success, and I have been wondering for some time how to contextualise worldly goals with spiritual intentions, and asking myself what spiritual success is.
This quote from the marvellous Beyond The Ordinary interviews with Dr Hawkins helped answer that question for me:
"The inspiration to evolve spiritually is already a manifestation of the
presence of God within, and it's certainly indicative of good karma. Just to want to know truth, to evolve, to improve oneself, to become a better person, to fulfill one's potential – those are all inspirations. And the person doesn't make them up; they just come to them. It's like an innate desire to fulfill your potential.
That potential as one evolves it becomes more and more identified in
spirituality – the capacity to love, to forgive, to appreciate, to see the beauty in all that exists, to live in peace and harmony instead of discord and strife.
And I'll tell you what happens. It becomes more important to succeed than to
win. Anybody can win. It doesn't mean anything. It's success.
So spiritual evolution is the willingness to give up games and seeming wins for a greater goal which is the evolution of your own consciousness… to give up selfishness because what is the ego except selfishness in all its desires…
The universe responds to the willingness to surrender that. As I said it's like
an electrostatic field. You start praying to God for spiritual guidance and all and your life begins to change.
It unfolds automatically…The only requirement is to do whatever you do to the best of your capacity and leave the rest up to God."
Quote taken from Dr Hawkins 02/10/04
( beyondtheordinary.net/drhawkins.shtml )
This quote from the marvellous Beyond The Ordinary interviews with Dr Hawkins helped answer that question for me:
"The inspiration to evolve spiritually is already a manifestation of the
presence of God within, and it's certainly indicative of good karma. Just to want to know truth, to evolve, to improve oneself, to become a better person, to fulfill one's potential – those are all inspirations. And the person doesn't make them up; they just come to them. It's like an innate desire to fulfill your potential.
That potential as one evolves it becomes more and more identified in
spirituality – the capacity to love, to forgive, to appreciate, to see the beauty in all that exists, to live in peace and harmony instead of discord and strife.
And I'll tell you what happens. It becomes more important to succeed than to
win. Anybody can win. It doesn't mean anything. It's success.
So spiritual evolution is the willingness to give up games and seeming wins for a greater goal which is the evolution of your own consciousness… to give up selfishness because what is the ego except selfishness in all its desires…
The universe responds to the willingness to surrender that. As I said it's like
an electrostatic field. You start praying to God for spiritual guidance and all and your life begins to change.
It unfolds automatically…The only requirement is to do whatever you do to the best of your capacity and leave the rest up to God."
Quote taken from Dr Hawkins 02/10/04
( beyondtheordinary.net/drhawkins.shtml )
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