Going for the True Goal

Most everything that we wish to manifest in the material world usually has less to do with the actual thing and more to do with the desire for the internal state of happiness and peace. A person might think: “I really want a fancy sports car.” “I want to feel successful in my career.” “I want a new house.” But the reason that person might want those new things is in order to reach a desired state.
It is best to not be deluded into thinking that the means to the goal (house, car, job, wife) is the goal itself. It would serve us better to place our intention on the goal than on the means. The goal (happiness and peace) is attainable in every moment. We can get into a warped state of mind and forget what is really important. We get stubborn about our attachments to how we think reality is supposed to be showing up. Just by a change in our perception, we can have happiness, bliss, and peace because we chose it directly. In this way, it does not matter so much what is happening in the world. What matters is whether we are choosing the state internally. Applying the laws of manifestation, we have just as much power, if not more power, to change the internal state as the external state. It is a matter of choice.
Ultimately, the quest is not how we can alter reality, but how can we embrace reality in its entirety right now and honor the perfection in what is currently manifesting. There will always be one more mountain to climb, another goal to reach. We will never have everything we want. The best thing we can do is to release to and be content with the here and now. This is true freedom.
One of my teachers once told a story in which there was once a great king who told his court artists that he would give a great prize to the one that could really portray true peace in a painting. After a time, one of the artists brought to him a stunningly beautiful painting of a most peaceful lake up in the mountains that very few people had ever been to. Just by looking at the painting you could be lulled into a very peaceful state. A little while later, the other artist brought him a picture of a huge crashing waterfall, with water coming down in torrents. At the bottom of the waterfall was a small dove in a very peaceful state of meditation. The king gave this artist the prize. He said, “This painting reflects true peace. When you can be peaceful in the midst of chaos, this is peace in the truest sense. Anyone can be peaceful in a peaceful place.”

Excerpted from the book
"Dancing in the Eye of Transformation."
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© 2006 Sylvia Brallier.
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