Fulfillment Quotes

Fulfillment is an ego created idea of the happiness one can have upon the accomplishment of a goal or the acquisition of some item.

The very word conjures the automatic subconscious idea that you would like to be happy, and that you are currently not as important or valid as you should be.

To seek self-validation through achieving and having is to seek happiness and its root, the joy of being, through things that can only point to them.

The idea of being fulfilled is accompanied by the thought "When this or that happens, or if this person or situation materializes, or if only I could this or get that, then I will be happy".

What most people can't grasp is that fulfillment can only be lived and experienced in the present moment. So if you have accomplishent that which at one point you thought would complete you, but are thinking about something other than that beautiful state of happiness that hence forth you will bask in because you have finally "made it", you are not at this moment happy at all. Your accomplishment has not provided the never ending state of bliss that it once promised. This is not to say that achieving goals is futile, but to enjoy the process of achieving your goals because you enjoy the work and thought required along the way.

I once met a man in Hawaii stting at a bar in a posh hotel. He wore a colorful shirt but seemed very sad and sullen, as though someone close to him had just died. I spoke to him and found out that he had just sold the company he had created from the ground up, with his own sweat, for 20 million dollars. He would never have to work or worry about money again. What it took him all these years to learn was that his joy had already come to him via the creativity, the relationships, the the hurdles he'd jumped in the building of his company, and he'd missed it, and now all he had to show was an impressive number on a piece of paper and a lonely drink. He'd lived the joy without knowing it and when he finally reached the magical goal, it came up empty. We talked a while and he spoke of new goals, new companies he might like start because he would enjoy the process, his ultimate goal being not to get rich, but to provide jobs and valuable services and to enjoy the act of creating something from nothing. I'm sure he's happier now than the day he'd finally "made it".

Joy of being from fulfillment