The
moment you set a goal into the future, you put a space-time distance between
where you are and where you hope to be. A friction with time, something like
your soul falling into the earth's atmosphere from space, may sooner or later
become evident. With your stubborn goal setting, you will surely feel your
soul's friction with time as an impatient, unnamable anxiety. Staying ahead of
the pursuing reality of hopelessness and anxiety is the reason why you see
hope in setting more goals.
Spiritually
sensitive people experience conflicting excitements, perhaps a puzzling fear of
success in all their endeavors. At first many feel only the trembling
excitement of looking forward to the next adventure accompanied by that "I
can't wait" feeling. For such as these, time passes too slowly. They are
always in a hurry to get to what always turns out to be a disappointing and
nebulous somewhere.
For
what reason should you or anyone set a goal? Is it not to fulfill a mysterious
missing sense of purpose? But for what purpose is it, other than a
self-serving one? Any journey toward selfish endeavors pulls our souls away
from a potential eternal timeless realm into an infernal friction with
materiality. Intellectuals who believe that man is all animal will say,
"How, then, can anything be achieved without goals?"
You
should have noticed by now that after reaching any goal you soon feel bored and
frustrated. This is because all self-serving achievements never fulfill the
empty space within, the way you thought they would. In every success or
failure, you will more likely than not redouble your efforts toward newer
goals, stubbornly and egocentrically seeking that elusive fulfillment. You are
going to make whatever it is work, even if it kills you, never truly
understanding the dire consequences of such egocentric efforts.
Time Is Relative to Consciousness
A
sleeping person experiences time differently from an awakened observer. If you
were to travel to a distant planet, you would need to be placed in a state of
suspended animation. The distance through time and space is agonizingly
similar to that of setting goals. It is like going somewhere but never
arriving.
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