A New Earth With Eckhart Tolle and Oprah: Video Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPmtf0lZcw
You cannot find happiness by achieving some future goal. What matters most is to find your inner purpose, which is aligning your life with the present moment. You have to go beyond the current state of dissatisfaction. You enter this moment by becoming one internally with the present moment. You cannot enter it by achieving some future goal. Your inner purpose is to be totally in alignment with where you are and what you are doing by undertaking every activity with complete presence in that moment that you are carrying out that activity.
There is always only, just this one step – the step you are taking right now, so give it your fullest attention. The step you are taking right now is primary and the destination is secondary. What you encounter when you get to your destination depends on the quality of this one step. Whatever you are doing at any given moment – if you give it your best, it leads to the next best moment. This doesn’t mean that you don’t know where you are going.
If there is a dissatisfaction and a denial of the present moment, which is a denial of life because you are not honoring life and because you are not honoring this moment by being open to it, then your future will be full of dissatisfaction and denial. People are living their lives as though the destination is the most important thing.
The unconscious assumption behind all such action is that success is a future event and that the end justifies the means – but the means and the end are one. If the means did not contribute to human happiness then the end will not either. Whatever the end is, it will carry the energy of what it took to get there, or the means.
The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are, that is to say your state of consciousness. The most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns being and is primary and outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.
Finding and living in alignment with your inner purpose is the foundation of fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis of true success. Without that alignment you can still achieve things with effort and struggle but there is no joy in such an endeavor and always results in suffering.
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