“Am I living fully right now? Am I bringing forth everything I can bring forth? Am I digging down into that ineffable inner treasure-house that I know is in there? That trove of genius? Am I living my life’s calling? Am I willing to go to any lengths to offer my genius to the world?”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“We derive the greatest pleasure and fulfillment when all our faculties are drawn together into our life’s work. In this state of absorption, we experience extraordinary satisfaction. We human beings are attracted to the experience of intense involvement. The outcome of this involvement, says Hokusai, is sublime. “By ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature.” Hokusai’s lesson, finally, is that a life of passion for dharma is a fulfilled”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“First: Discern your dharma. “Look to your own duty,” says Krishna in Chapter Two. “Do not tremble before it.” Discern, name, and then embrace your own dharma. Then: Do it full out! Knowing your dharma, do it with every fiber of your being. Bring everything you’ve got to it. Commit yourself utterly. In this way you can live an authentically passionate life, and you can transform desire itself into a bonfire of light. Next: Let go of the outcome. “Relinquish the fruits of your actions,” says Krishna. Success and failure in the eyes of the world are not your concern. “It is better to fail at your own dharma than to succeed at the dharma of someone else,” he says. Finally: Turn your actions over to God. “Dedicate your actions to me,” says Krishna. All true vocation arises in the stream of love that flows between the individual soul and the divine soul. All true dharma is a movement of the soul back to its Ground.”
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
― The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
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