The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment

You’ll get more out of any live-with if you are conscious of what happens when you do it.

First, recall the most meaningful thing you did in the last week or so. It could be something similar to the situation you just recalled, but think of something that happened recently. Whatever it is, re-experience doing that activity. See it in your mind’s eye and get the feeling of what made this activity so meaningful. (Notice that I am not aski

The very point of it all lay in a fundamental challenge issued to each of us: Make your life itself a creative work of art.

Through it all, he stayed true to the principles of this book: He drew strength from his highest goal.

None of this is possible unless you have integrity and take action on the basis of what you know to be true. And that is hard precisely because of the Voice of Judgment, or the VOJ—that internal critic that promotes the fears—stopping you from seeing the possibilities in your life.

Few people say their highest goal is something material—the very nature of the question goes deeper than a desire to win the lottery or own a beach house. Still, very few people talk about the highest goal that probably has been with them from the beginning of their life and that has been supporting them in everything they do. I suspect that is bec

You don’t need to do anything in particular. Just be fully in the world, holding your vision and allowing your purpose in life to come into focus.

I think the secret is the more I pay attention to exactly what I am doing, the easier it is to love doing it. Even cleaning toilets … I love having them clean, and it’s an act of service (i.e., love) for family and visitors who will be using them.”

And only if we discover ways of translating this highest goal into a new way of living, can it be practical and expansive for all.

Mahatma Gandhi taught that only service done with joy can have meaning.