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GOALS, GENEROSITY AND GOD
consciousness that can move with equanimity through frustration, fear, and pain.
When goals become partnered with awakening to God/Master, it yields a process that may be called “true goal-setting.” True goal-setting is a tool much more than simple acquisition of things and management of life’s confusions. When goal- setting is spiritualized, results are not the main focus; it is the process we care about. Through the process, we grow, learn, and awaken.
How do we manage to set our Spiritual Goals is a question that may appear difficult to answer. But the qualities of compassion and non injury as far as I know are the keys for setting spiritual goals. One of the most wonderful abodes in the higher states of Consciousness is rejoicing in other peoples' success. This quality however has been defined in traditional books, negatively as non jealousy. Rejoice is far more happier state than non jealousy is what we learn in spiritual life. Equanimity the highest mount in the higher states of consciousness
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