All Goals Are False Unless We Are Only Materially Minded

All Goals are False Unless We are Only interested in the world and material trappings and what we can have, buy and own.

This will be almost impossible for anyone very young to understand as they have ahead of them a lifetime of things to achieve, people to meet and places to go. It would take a very perceptive young child to see that and I certainly was not one of them.

As children however we are usually more perceptive than our parents because we can see that they say one thing and often do another. The young, fresh, innocent eyes of the child have a clarity that the poor adult has usually lost.

That's why there is often so much friction between the parents and the children unless the intelligence of the children has been scared out of them by the constant well intentioned but ignorant advice of the adults and the child has decided to toe the line.

Goals can be very useful in the world to focus, get things done and achieve results but there does come a time when you have looked into all motives and found them lacking, when you have gone through the whole round of motives and discovered that you have been left empty handed.

At a certain age from early thirties perhaps, certainly early forties and onwards that you can see quite easily that the motives and goals lead nowhere, that you go on moving in circles and that YOU have not really changed, that you remain the same and that the happiness and peace you seek is still on the horizon.

You must have observed if you spend some quiet time with yourself -not an easy thing for most people- that the motives go on driving you nuts, almost mad, as one achieved outcome leads to yet another new motive or goal and the ongoing rounds of desire, action and result. It is imperceptible but still observable that once one goal has been achieved a new one springs up in its place and this goal becomes the new one to achieve.

Now the important thing is not to condemn goal making and goal setting as I have also seen that a focus is often required to get things done but it is important to remember that the goal is certainly not the journey, it is only a strategy to get what we think we want.

However in the end we all want happiness, silence, peace, love, clarity and compassion and goals will never give us these things. Good to make goals but I try to keep them in perspective. If I am becoming too goal orientated I remind myself that these goals will never ever bring me what I really need. However we all need to make our own experiences and it may take a whole lifetime to see that goals are still very much part of this world and not part of that other world which can deliver us what we crave.

Goals and motives are good as far as they go but we will see eventually that the motives and goals only promise but that which is promised is never delivered. One goal is achieved and another goal or motive comes up again never leaving us with a moment's peace.

Sam

Sam J. Borrett - first trained as a lawyer,then retrained in India as a Rebalancer, Bioenergetics Therapist, Meditation Leader, Facilitator, and Hypnotherapist.

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