Talking to a group of parents
about parenting skills last week, we asked them what would they want most for
their kids and most of them replied “To be successful.” When asked about the
meaning of success, they said ‘more money’, ‘good college degrees’, ‘peer
recognition’, ‘more things’. Nobody spoke about values such as love,
compassion, service, and character; until we probed them further.
Not surprising, as this is what
our society’s description of success is about. We are inundated with such
notions of success in books, magazines, films, seminars, webinars, and blogs.
We are force fed stories of how to achieve success in our business and personal
lives by doing more, earning more and acquiring more. This situation has spawned an epidemic of
stressed, dissatisfied people, feeling they are yet to cross the line and
become successful. On whatever rung some people find themselves on the ‘ladder
of success’, there is always somebody else who has one more thing or gadget.
What is this void we are
desperately trying to fill?
Too many people are trying to
find solutions to their problems based on an old paradigm of separation and
lack. Cutting edge scientific research and results are now proving what
spirituality has been professing all along: we are all connected to one
another; to our bodies, to our planet and ultimately, to the universe. Nature
has always given us irrefutable signs that life is abundant. We now need to
transpose this fact to ourselves, to become aware that we are whole, that we are enough. Assuming our status of ‘Human
Being’ and ceasing to be a ‘Human
Becoming’.
Consider this: everything is
energy existing at various levels of vibration. Whatever we desire already
exists within us. All that is required is for each of us to tune into those
frequencies and allow them to emerge or materialize. Albert Einstein said so in
his famous statement “The significant
problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were when we
created them.”
Our planet is poised at a time
when it needs people who nurture, love and trust. It needs people of character,
integrity and fortitude at the helm of governments, companies, work teams and
families. We are on the frontline of a
new world that requires all of us to challenge old beliefs that have been
rendered useless by events and technological advents, the speed and magnitude
of which have never been witnessed before in human history. Maybe we should start
by accepting that there is no good or bad, but only our judgement making it so.
There is a new world emerging
that requires each of us to embrace new paradigms and walk away from old beliefs that do not serve us anymore. We
must allow our authentic self to guide us so as to lift the veil of illusion
that we are not enough or that some part of us is missing unless we acquire some
material things. You are already complete and when you fully embrace this
truth, you realize that you are fulfilled always.
The next step is to ask yourself:
“How
can I use my gift to serve in this emerging world?”
