“Being in Success” as a phrase when one hears, one colloquially associates the phrase with an achievement of a goal or a set target. And, hence there is a sense of an ego in the tone. When one identifies their own achievements as their success, an association to their own identity comes from the already “achieved” success rather than acknowledging it as a process. In the process, if it is already perceived to be something that is achieved, it’s determined to have reached an end result. In this space, there’s a stagnation. Therefore, ontologically and subconsciously, without our own realisation, we would have hit a dead-end once we’ve identified us by our achievements – once there is a sense of ‘I’.
But success is a process and it happens in the service of others. Here, serving others is not to be looked as a moral act, but serving to an entity outside of my own constructed identity or my ego. In this act of serving others, ‘others’ not necessarily are people around you or within your own community. ‘Others’, here could mean serving to the moment, serving to the situation or the context, it could be serving to build relations or towards the creation of a new product, serving towards one’s way of life, it might even be serving towards generating material gains or wealth – but all of it with an intention. The moment one is serving, they’re in service to a cause or a purpose which itself becomes bigger than one’s identity or ego, and therefore has the ability to dissolve (or absolve) themselves into that purpose. In service, there is no longer ‘I’. Being in success is, therefore, a process, an ongoing experience rather than a result or an end product.
The moment one is serving, they’re in service to a cause or a purpose which itself becomes bigger than one’s identity or ego, and therefore has the ability to dissolve (or absolve) themselves into that purpose. In service, there is no longer ‘I’.
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