Well, I think success has certain clear parameters. To me success is the ability to love and to have compassion. It's the capacity to experience joy and spread it to others. It's the security of knowing that your life has meaning and purpose. It is a sense of connection to the creative power of the universe. It's also the ability to fulfil your goals. It's the progressive realisation of worthy goals. It's also the expansion of happiness. When you have all that, then material success in terms of material acquisitions and comforts and luxury, follows as a by-product. But if you focus only on material success then you might achieve it, but you're also likely to get a heart attack or hypertension or fall prey to addictive behaviour and have a divorce and have a disrupted family life. Success, like anything in life, must be holistic, it must embrace all needs, physical, emotional, in terms of relationship, uh in terms of being intellectually satisfying and ultimately in terms of the experience of our own soul and spirit.
We must ask ourselves, if I had all the time in the world and all the money in the world, what would I do. That's your dharma, that's your purpose in life. Go into meditation and ask the question and the spirit will guide you spontaneously.
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