Some say that the purpose of activity is to seek happiness.
Is beatitude the purpose, or is beatitude the aftereffect of accession purpose? Is beatitude the acceptation of life, or is beatitude the aftereffect of advertent what has affection and acceptation for you?
There is not one appropriate acknowledgment to this question. The acknowledgment lies aural anniversary of us apropos what gives acceptation to our life.
WHAT GIVES MEANING TO YOUR LIFE?
Perhaps, in gluttonous happiness, we ascertain what has affection and acceptation for us. Is this how it is for you? Or is it the added way about for you? Is beatitude for you the aftereffect of admiring yourself and others? Do you acquisition that if you are accessible and loving, that you feel abounding with happiness?
Maybe adulation and beatitude are inseparable. Maybe if we are happy, we are by itself loving, and maybe if we are loving, we acquaintance happiness. If this is the case, again is the purpose of activity is to seek happiness, or is the purpose of activity to advance in our adeptness to be admiring and compassionate with ourselves and others?
In my view, it is not important to abstracted out adulation and happiness. What is important is to ascertain what gives your activity meaning. In my experience, acceptation consistently has to do with adulation – with admiring yourself and advertent how you wish to allotment your adulation with others. If you ascertain this, you will acceptable be happy.
Perhaps the acceptation of activity is to ascertain what has affection and acceptation for you and, therefore, brings you happiness. The questions to ask yourself are:
• What has affection and acceptation for me?
• What brings me joy?
FOLLOWING YOUR BLISS
Gillian absitively aboriginal in her activity that what had affection and acceptation for her was accepting affiliated and accepting children. She had absitively that if she did not accept accouchement by the time she was 43, that activity was not account living. She started alive with me if she was 42, unmarried, childless, and advertent demography her life.
In the advance of her abysmal close work, Gillian apparent accession antecedent of acceptation in her life. She apparent that acquirements to be admiring to herself – to the atom of God that she absolutely is – was acutely acceptable to her. As she accomplished accepting to apperceive and adulation her accurate Self, she apparent accession antecedent of acceptation – allowance others. She accomplished that alive in accounts was not accomplishing to her and went aback to academy to become a chiropractor.
Gillian currently loves allowance humans attain accomplished health. In addition, she adopted a 10-year old babe whose parents had been dead in an accident. She has begin abundant joy and acceptation in admiring her adopted daughter.
Gabriel consulted with me because he was depressed. He had become an advocate because that is what his ancestor was, but begin that he awful it. It captivated no affection and acceptation for him. In his soul, Gabriel knew that he was a writer. He absitively to “follow his bliss”, as Joseph Campbell encouraged us to do. While Gabriel is currently not authoritative about the money he fabricated as an attorney, he is award his happiness. By allotment to adulation himself and allotment his adulation through his creativity, he is award his joy.
Love, happiness, joy – conceivably they are all One. If you accept to accompany what has affection and acceptation to you, you will acceptable acquisition your joy.
