Travel Your Own Path. Prof. Ray asks: What does the highest goal mean to you right now? The necessity of finding and following our own path is the stuff of timeless legend and lore. Yet we often avoid the quest for the highest goal because it is frightening to create our own way.
I contend that we develop habits, habitual ways of responding to life, that we think protect us, but actually get in our way. Prof. Ray provides that the key is to pay attention to what works for us so that we begin to develop our own path. The benefits are that the more we develop and stay on our own path the more self-worth and purpose we have, and the more we will want the rewards that support a meaningful life. Our experience of the highest goal will become its own reward, a beneficial addiction that can increase the meaning of our lives and the transformation of the world.
I didn't begin to follow a/my path until I stopped drinking and committed to a twelve step program. Indeed, I had to renounce my addiction to drink in order to find and practice the twelve steps. Whatever I do now must conform to these steps, something that is practical and works. I've also begun a dedicated practice of sitting meditation. I've chosen Shambhala training because it too is practical and works.
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