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The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
And keep asking the question, “Why is that so important to me?” of every answer you give until you get down to one word.
from The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray
Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
Most people forget their youthful experience of greatness and purpose or at least put it aside somewhere deep in their memory. It happens to all of us: We sub-optimize. By sub-optimizing I mean that we may have an experience of the highest goal in our lives, but we quickly pull back to the lesser goals that society calls success. We often get froze
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Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
When you travel this cycle, you are practicing one of the core discoveries I have made in my creativity work: You can consistently live from your highest goal by simply paying attention to the times when you are connected to it.
from The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray
Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
Try living with the admonition “Do Only What You Love, Love Everything You Do” for at least a week.
from The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray
Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
This is the heart of the challenge to find true prosperity: In our culture, we look for prosperity outside ourselves, and all the while it waits for us internally. True prosperity is being happy and continuously experiencing the variety and infinity of qualities that make up your Self. That is the way you can touch the experience of the highest goa
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Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
When you experience flow and act on your inner resources, naturally, without thinking, you have achieved the highest level of this live-with. If this happens even once during your practice, don’t forget it. You can bring the sense of this experience into other situations. That will help you break the illusion that you are small and inadequate. As y
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Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
Become more aware of what you love to do, and move toward making your life a series of moments spent doing those things.
from The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray
Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
You can learn whether the things you thought you loved to do are really as satisfying as you thought. Conversely, you can see that tasks you normally avoid are not really that bad; in fact, they can be fulfilling and lead to flow if you are consciously aware when you do them.
from The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray
Harold T. Harper added 4mo ago
Throughout the week, or whatever time period you do this live-with, increase the amount of time (coming as close to one hundred percent as possible) spent only in activities that meet at least one of the following criteria: • the activity is easy, effortless and enjoyable; • the activity is intrinsically meaningful to you; • the activity feels natu
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