Quotes About Purpose

With all its worship of material success, society has missed a profound truth: success depends on who you are, not what you do.

The success we want our children to achieve has to be defined in many nonmaterial ways as well. It should include the ability to love and have compassion, the capacity to feel joy and spread it to others, the security of knowing that one's life serves a purpose, and finally, a sense of connection to the creative power of the universe.

Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.

Life becomes fulfilling only when you act from the level of meaning.

Los deseos son lo que impulsa la vida hacia la plenitud. Aquello que al principio solo esperas, algún día lo sabrás.

I'm not persuaded by atheists who claim to live cheerfully in a random universe. They aren't waking up every morning to say, "How wonderful, another day when nothing really has meaning.")

we are "the carriers of the central jewel, the flashing purpose that lights up the whole dark universe.

Tú eres lo que tu deseo más profundo es. Como es tu deseo, es tu intención. Como es tu intención, es tu voluntad. Como es tu voluntad, son tus actos. Como son tus actos, es tu destino». Nuestro destino proviene en última instancia de los niveles más profundos del deseo y también del nivel más profundo de la intención. Ambos están íntimamente vinculados.

Love without action is irrelevant, while action without love is meaningless...combine the two, what you can achieve is almost limitless.

Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. Intention, on the other hand, triggers transformation of energy and information. Intention organizes its own fulfillment.

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Finally, the Kingdom of God could never be one thing. It had to serve too many purposes and was entangled in too many aspects of traditional religion. I think the only way to solve the riddles posed by the Kingdom of God is to say that God exists in different places depending on your level of consciousness. This becomes critical on the spiritual path, because as your own awareness shifts, God does, too.

Sunday Law of Pure Potentiality Monday Law of Giving and Receiving Tuesday Law of Karma (or Cause and Effect) Wednesday Law of Least Effort Thursday Law of Intention and Desire Friday Law of Detachment Saturday Law of Dharma (or Purpose in Life)

uno no sabe que tiene alzheimer cuando olvida dónde puso las llaves del coche, sino cuando olvida para qué son.

Sit down and make a list of the answers to these two questions: Ask yourself, if money was no concern and you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma, because you have passion for what you do

On the direct path you constantly reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at bay.

Nothing you really value in your present life—a loving relationship, a good family, worthwhile and rewarding work, and the time to enjoy these things—came about by chance. They grew out of desire and intention.

Moreover, it might not even be desirable to follow your bliss. Should you quit your job as an accountant, office manager, or salesperson and jump immediately into opera singing, painting, or raising roses because that's what you really love? Normal life would be disrupted if everyone ran around doing only the things they loved. But that is how most people interpreted Campbell's explanation.

An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.