There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
Interpretation
Desires stem from the pursuit of feeling good, and true success is measured by the joy we experience.
Esther Hicks emphasizes that every desire we hold is ultimately rooted in the belief that achieving it will bring us happiness. Whether we seek material possessions, relationships, or specific conditions, the underlying goal remains the same: to attain a state of joy. Therefore, success should not be gauged by wealth or status, but by the genuine joy we feel in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing passions and happiness.
When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.
It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.
A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.
Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!
Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
Having no destination, I am never lost.
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
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