How do I create a condition or situation in which my real calling comes out? What is the meaning of my life? What is it I am here for? What should I focus on for the rest of my life? These and many such questions that come to our mind. Agreed at some time the penny drops, but how to know about it. When will it occur to me?
Be aware and observe. You will find your calling. And as Steve Jobs said, "You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
We all want to know the answer. We focus our energy and attention on finding a solution. If we shift our focus from destination and bring our energies to our journey in the present, life becomes more meaningful and joyful.
We all want to know the answer. We focus our energy and attention on finding a solution. If we shift our focus from destination and bring our energies to our journey in the present, life becomes more meaningful and joyful. We get in touch with our inner peace. Let me complete this post and the theme for this week by quoting from the speech given by John Gardner to young students, which I think is equally applicable to all of us,
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account."
- John Gardner
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