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“Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.”
― 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
“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
“Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent—though often hidden—need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don’t see it or don’t care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.”
― 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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