Our
emotions are not who we are just as our thoughts are not who we are.
How we choose to respond to them or for that matter not to respond to
them is closer to who we are. Our thoughts and emotions do represent
us and is how others experience us or for that matter how we
experience ourselves. They are a cumulative result of all the choices
we have ever made. However, as long as we are alive and thus have the
power to choose we also have the power to cancel the impact of all
that we have come to be.
I have come about an understanding about the absolute purpose of our being and I think it’s not ambition but an aspiration. But if it is an aspiration what could be the absolute aspiration? Clearly the pharaoh must have taught his people to aspire to a position in his court. His method must have been a reward for serving him. But what service did he put his society to? It was the building of the Pyramids. Now the pyramids like all his other social projects were aggrandizement meant for him. And with the pharaoh at the top and his workers at the bottom another structure was created which was the hierarchy of society. Interestingly this entire society was put to one goal only: aggrandizement. Aggrandizement of any kind is inherently fleeting. For example if we aggrandize money it will get used up and disappear. If we aggrandize a seat of power sooner or later it will also disappear. Hence neither aggrandizement serving ourselves nor for another can be the highest we can aspire for. In fa...
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