Nice exposition, Vam. I think your list of success' peripherals is perfect and not even indicators of real success. They are just byproducts, collateral damage, yet many wrongfully and to their own detriment consider them to be the goals.
"... On Apr 29, 9:28 pm, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote: ..." > " I suspect that 'success' is taught to us as being about seizing the > main chance, either in promoting the lying bullshit required by > politicians' targets or fencing stolen supermarket food. The > bureaucrats, perhaps as usual, may be worse than the thieves." > > Success is both important and simple to understand. It starts in the > heart of man, as desire or want and then as the goal one commits > oneself to. Then follows the long haul of effort, application of mind, > discipline and single mindedness ... such that one's faculties grow > in capacity ... and, one discovers oneself. > > Success is launching oneself and remaining on that journey of self - > discovery. Stations, Position, Money, Property, Power Gain, etc. are > peripheral to success and are, at best, secondary gauges of success. > > This is not to contradict your views about politicians and > bureaucrats. They are not even peripheral to the topic of " success," > but for their visibility. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
