![]() ![]() This is why I now find myself more or less ambitionless. The ego also tells us that we have to make it all work: we have to make the right decisions, do the right things, be the right kind of people in order to earn our happiness at long last.Īll the personal growth work I’ve done over the past decades has led finally to this realization: none of that outward stuff matters. Ego keeps us focusing on what’s “out there.” How many friends do we have? How much money do we make? How good do we look, and how successful are we, compared to every single person we meet? Depending on the answers to those questions, we may feel “happy” for a while, but it doesn’t last. The ego, or mind, is the enemy of true happiness. Because until we learn to overcome the ego and its ways, we’ll never truly be happy. We learn and grow, not to be better people, or to earn some outer reward (in this life or the next), or to prove ourselves worthy, but simply to be happy. I thought the real purpose of life was to learn and grow, but now I think that is just the means to the end – and the end is being happy. I honestly used to scoff at the idea that the purpose of life could be as simple as being happy. ![]() Not waiting for a relationship or some form of tangible “success” to make me feel worthwhile. Not having any ambition for things to be different. Nothing amazing has happened I’m simply appreciating the day in and day out routine of getting up, having my coffee, reading, watching my daughter spread her wings, meeting a friend, watching a movie, going to work in the restaurant. Something inside is metamorphosing and many of the things that once seemed very important to me (growing my email list! Selling books! Attracting coaching clients!) now seem nice but not really worth a lot of time and energy. Entering the kingdom of God means feeling, as if we were floating in the womb of the universe, that we are being taken care of, always, at every moment. ![]()
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