Quotes about Fulfillment

My Soul’s Marriage

A commitment to your own and
the world’s transformation.

For the Benefit of myself and All Beings.

I,            (my ego & personality)

Do solemnly swear
to love, honor and obey my soul,
my path to realization  and
relationship with a higher,
deeper creative power,
for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
from now and forever more.

I searched and waited and when
no enlightenment happened,
I knew I was That.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

"If we truly want to create a life that is grounded in basic well-being, we must decide to commit ourselves to learning what it takes to thrive instead of merely survive."

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

            Ever increasing value for Beauty supplied in its season;
            Ever decreasing value for Beauty denied for any reason

The choice for Beauty supplied may be a difficult choice, yet it is a choice.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The average Westerner, some would label civilized, (I would not choose that word), is caught in a life of mediocrity and unhappiness.  The magic has been lost on most.  We are sucked into the spell of consumerism, to be left with many things in our garage but nothing in our hearts.  We live frustrated, desperate lives of hopelessness, which are only occasionally sprinkled with moments of hope and clarity.  The most we look forward to is the next thing we can add to our already bulging pile of stuff.  We somehow go to jobs we don’t choose, day in day out, wondering if there isn’t something more to life.  We skimp and scrape to get by, never thinking about the next person.  It does not often cross our minds, that giving away our time, energy and love to another, gives us more happiness and hope in our own lives.  We live in fear – fear of dying, fear of living, fear of losing our stuff, fear of our neighbors, fear of the environment, fear of change, and fear of ourselves, really.”

Sherman continued as the others focused their attention on him.  “If we compare this type of existence to the type of existence the owner’s of these handprints lived, we see a dramatic difference.  They sought out, discovered and lived in harmony with their purpose, with each other and in their environment.  These symbols physically remain to demonstrate to this day, their connection to personal power and purpose – and to the spirit world that brought them that purpose.  When we know our purpose we are happier, more centered people.  We have direction, hope and something to look forward to, each and every day.  Something to work toward.  When we meet people who are living on-purpose we revere them, call them heroes and envy their lives.  But we each have out own gifts to bring.  Like the “Little Drummer Boy” our personal gifts are all that God wants from us.  When our personal purpose is expressed in how we make a living, we are fulfilled and happy.  When that purpose also reveals our individual method of service to our fellow man, fear falls away and peace and satisfaction take its place.

Isaac of Syria:"Try to enter your treasure house and you will see the treasure house of Heaven;To him who knows himself knowledge of all things is given.For knowing oneself is the fulfillment of the knowledge of all things"

For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness.  We need each other and we need to get away from each other.  We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence.  We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

SETH said: The magical approach takes it for granted that the human being is a united creature, fulfilling purposes in nature even as the animals do, whether or not those puposes are understood. (pause.)  The magical approach takes it for granted that each individual has a future, a fulfilling one, even though death may be tomorrow.  The magical approach takes it for granted that the means for development are within each individual, and that fulfillment will happen naturally.  Overall, that approach operates in your world.  If it did not, there would be no world.  If the worst was bound to happen, as scientists certainly think, even evolution, in their terms, would have been impossible, of course - a nice point to put somewhere (all intently).

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

Something of the sort has already been described for the self-actualizing person. Everything now comes of its own accord, pouring out, without will, effortlessly, purposelessly. He acts now totally and without deficiency, not homeostatically or need-reductively, not to avoid pain or displeasure or death, not for the sake of a goal further on in the future, not for any end other than itself. His behavior and experience becomes per se, and self-validating, end-behavior and end-experience, rather than means-behavior or means-experience. At this level, I have called the person godlike because most gods have been considered to have no needs or wants, no deficiencies, nothing lacking, to be gratified in all things. The characteristics and especially actions of the “highest,” “best” gods have then been deduced as based upon not-wanting.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more “free-will” than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

Probably the authentic person is himself complete or final in some sense; he certainly experiences subjective finality, completion or perfection at times; and he certainly perceives it in the world. It may turn out that only peakers can achieve full identity; that non-peakers must always remain incomplete, deficient, striving, lacking something, living among means rather than among ends; or if the correlation turns out not to e perfect, I am certain at least that it is positive, between authenticity and peak-experiencing.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 

1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos

2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self

3. Master your inner dialogue

4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe

5. Harness your emotional turbulence

6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos

7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities

Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires... 

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Only through dedicated work does a man fulfill himself.

Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. . . . You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance, can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. . . . For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.