April 26th

Fulfillment


Accomplish your visions.
Persevere in your ambitions.
Only then can you negate
Visions and ambitions.

Some say that one should not have ambitions; they equate these with greed and lust. However, some ambitions are the result of curiosity and inner desire. They are individual interests, like wanting to know about a certain subject or wanting to achieve goals. As long as they do no harm to others, they should be exercised rather than suppressed.Many young people are held back by their peers and their elders. Sometimes there are valid reasons, but usually the motivations of the others are colored by fear, ignorance, jealousy, or inadequacy. No one should hold you back from achieving your life's goals.
Whatever you want to do, do it to the fullest. There are just a few provisions. First, you must realize that nothing is forever. You may achieve your goals only to find out that they are no longer important to you. This is all right. That means you have come to the end of your interest and are now free to go on to something else. Secondly, your ambitions should not determine your life. You are a human being first, and your goals are merely adjuncts to your basic quest as a person. Finally, you should realize that the fulfillment of your goals should include the eradication of all fears. Once you have accomplished these things, you will truly have nothing standing between you and spiritual realization.

Personal Interpretation


Ambition is not to be feared. We must have goals in life and must work toward fulfilling them. Nothing lasts forever however, and we should not be surprised to sometimes find that the realization of our visions fails to bring us the satisfaction we anticipated feeling. There is often more satisfaction in the fulfillment of our goals than in reaching them. If we feel that the things we worked for have ceased to matter to us, we should not feel that our time or resources have been wasted. Rather, we should see our efforts as a necessary bend in the path and feel free to move on to other things. We are human beings first and our goals should be secondary to a realization of our innermost nature.  Every experience in this lifetime, every success and failure, leads us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and our universe, and this is our primary purpose in this lifetime.