I have such a warm feeling in my heart after going through more than 60 posts from you beautiful souls from all around the world and so many different cultures and religions. It is touching to see how many of you joined us this week and really went deep into your souls to share so many Great posts. It makes me happy to know the despite our varied backgrounds, views and ideas that we also share so much in common! This QOTW was a challenging question and yet you all managed to answer with so many meaningful words that i am left feeling all warm and fuzzy! So THANK YOU to each and every one of you who has posted!
I have chosen a sentence or a paragraph from most of your posts and copied them below. I always find this such a great way to summarize your many posts and ideas in a succinct way so that we can all scroll down and get a good idea of the way we have all answered this question! There are so many pearls of wisdom that it is not possible to judge or to choose any best posts or winners.
So without further ado, please do read these short quotes and see how you feel when you get to the end! If you are someone who doubts whether you are successful in life, then these quotes will I hope be as inspiring to you as they are to me. Today I have written a post on my personal blog (@eco-alex) that brings into question whether i believe the ecoTrain community is successful. These posts and quotes below certainly have given me food for though as i ponder the meaning of life and what we spend our time doing with the few precious years that we have here.
Thank you again to EVERYONE who post. Sending you love and blessings for your days ahead. <3
QUOTES FROM YOUR POSTS
When you have nothing but you feel you have everything
Live with awareness Be impeccable with your word Don't take anything personally Don't make assumptions Always do your best.
“Well! People often view success in spiritual as the same as physical: for me it is sound health in my spirit, body and soul. I don’t have any sickness, am always happy and hardly sad; I have a good connection with divinity through meditation and whenever I meditate I am always happy in the spiritual realm.
Spirituality means different things to us all, as we all have our own idea of what it means to be spiritual. It's not something that you need to be told, but rather something you feel. It is for me anyhow. The connection that I feel with nature, no matter where I am. I don't need to be in the wilderness to feel that, I carry it with me wherever I go.
In my very personal opinion, success has a first component: HAPPINESS... And that is the most difficult ingredient of success because it can take us a lifetime to understand that, to be happy, we just need to want to be happy.
Not hurting anyone, Eco-friendly, Inner Peace and Satisfaction.
Success in the spiritual perspective is like an unseen wealth, it's there but you don't see it until your departure here on Earth.
When I measure success in something external, I move away from the "spiritual", because you put your focus on something that has nothing to do with your own being.
it could be asserted that the man of enlightened spirit possesses the understanding to create his reality and his success will come from the confidence that God will provide what his heart longs for and his passage through life will leave loving footprints in the souls of the people he crosses because what you sow, you reap.
We feel success is having popularity, more money, and power but with time all these get to fade away after death and we will be left spiritual accomplishment which is how far we get connected, God.
I believe that one way to relate success to the spiritual is to relate it to the internal rather than the external. The external would represent relating success to material things or the approval of others. On the other hand, inside you are your principles or your being, and to express or develop them in their best essence would be to have internal success. It depends on you and not on others.
Success comes around to those who work for it and support themselves with prayers. The things to get successful are to pray, work, and never give up.
Doing what is good, right, just before the divine, guarantees us a wonderful atmosphere of peace, in which we accept ourselves as we are with a structure in matter and a spiritual one. Spiritual success leads us to enjoy and enjoy everything that the divinity has created.
o have a close relationship with your creator. Getting up every morning in peaceful environment. To have caring and loving people around you. To have a healthy and sound body. To have a loyalty and honesty in your blood. To have a good character and faith.
Self-knowledge is the beginning of the path to spiritual success.
To attain a stage where I worried less of my inadequacies was a spiritual achievement for me. It downed my depression.
Success in the realm of spirituality necessitates sacrifice, hard effort, patience, tenacity, focus, and a good attitude toward all challenges.
Success is the attainment of peace of mind and heart via mastering the art of being satisfied with one's life.
Being in a good relationship with God and man while working towards a good state of living.
Success in spirituality is to have the power to create with awareness to cooperate with everyone, to help, to give but also to receive the good that is provided, where collaboration is pursued, where differences are a source of learning to grow as a community.
It doesn't mean you are successful when you have money alone, you can be successful with good health, eating the best meal and doing what you need to do at the right time.
True success is when our lives feel calmer and can enjoy life. We can enjoy everything with joy and love.
I think that success has many components, such as those I have mentioned above, but it will begin to flow when we concentrate on our internal conditions, remembering that we were created in the image and likeness of God.
Spiritual success can not be vanity since it lies in one and it is felt even when the physical wealth that is termed as success is not there.
In order to achieve success from a spiritual perspective, you must live in accordance with the Bible.
Success in a spiritual perspective is based on our faith, believe, character and souls we have won to our creator.
Spirituality doesnt offer what we like in the cities to make,to have large houses and to have the things that says, you can have all the material pleasures, but yet not these things judge the true facts -rather to be able to search the mind inwardly,to have full capacity in the contexts of the soul and knowing the limits of life, then spirituality can be gained and this is what life is and the success attached to spirituality.
Humility Gratitude Concern for Others Compassion, or personal suffering from the hardships of others The Extension of Consciousness Equanimity Focused Awareness Being Love– there is no need to love something or be loved by something, love just is. Letting go of the need to be right Intuition Emotional control – responding appropriately rather than reacting impulsively The melting away of religious dogma The dark night of the soul. Realisation of the sanctity of life and the conditions required for it to arise. The integration of practice to where each moment becomes a meditation Everything is funny, or at least most things, lol. Material success. A wider definition of what you are.
My idea of a true success is synced with the world's perception of success. No true success comes without self investment and self investment results in life achievement.
Success in a spiritual perspective simply refers to who we are and not what you do or those achievements you've had in life.
Progress is measured to the extent that we find the perfect balance between the spiritual and the temporal, when we are self-sufficient in both ways, then we have a successful life.
If you truly want to make success, you just have to meditate on the word of God.
I believe success is a journey and not a destination because you will have to go through so many challenges that you will encounter before you can finally succeed.
I would say success in spirituality is knowing who you are, knowing the truth and also abiding with it. It can also be said that it is to overcome naysayers when it comes to the things of God in your life.
I believe without wanting to be conformist that learning to live with the resources you have without envying what others have and without wishing for their failure, helps you to live together and surround yourself with wonderful people. Understanding that our life on this plane is short and we must enjoy the moments, laugh, not hold grudges and forgive strengthens our soul.
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