Rules of Attraction

What’s your definition of wisdom? It is through wisdom that we learn to live in an intuitive and effortless manner, for it teaches us what to think, how to think and how to behave in this ever-changing world, to experience true joy and flourishing, without harming ourselves or those around us.

True brilliance is in understanding the world and placing ourselves in harmony with it. This means knowing that our assessment of ourselves and our experiences, plus our responses to both, is what creates our world – and when we change for the better, so does our world.

Our most essential decision is not related to our career, our contribution to the world, the selection of our marital partner, or most other things we believe to be important. What is most important? Our loftiest and grandest decision is to craft an exemplary life that is of great value to all. What is an exemplary life? It is a life that is transpersonal in nature and therefore connected to transcendental forces from which the wildest accomplishments arise, and that too, effortlessly.

To engage the world without acquiring the right skill-set first is bound to create enormous difficulties and hardships. Therefore, the wise seek to perfect themselves first before seeking success in worldly or spiritual matters, because it is only then that whatever they set their mind upon, is accomplished insightfully and effortlessly. Living wisely, however, is easier said than done, because most of us are perpetually nearsighted. In which way? The unwise, struggle to accomplish things without the right skill-set and so, not only exhaust and harm themselves, but rarely accomplish anything of significance, because their attention and their power are misplaced.

That is why victorious warriors win – the battle in their mind – first, and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Music: No Way Out by Philipp Weigl – Free Music Archive CC BY