The mind creates all of our boundaries, seeing life in black and white. The heart is boundless, connected to the intuitive wisdom of our soul. Life is truly a simple experience that we overcomplicate with thinking. The more we mind, the less we feel. If life isn’t fulfilling it’s likely we’ve stopped feeling. After all, the most fulfilling experiences in life are the ones that set our heart ablaze, our senses aflame and our minds away. Lose your mind, find your heart and you will know the meaning of fulfillment.

We all want fulfillment, yet most of us are unaware of what it means to be fulfilled. It’s also safe to say that our idea of fulfillment has been confused with pursuing a false idea of success. We all seem to be after something, but what?

It’s clear that we would not pursue something we didn’t think would benefit us. As humans we act for two primary reasons, to gain pleasure or avoid pain. The trouble we’ve created is that fulfillment has become a chase for pleasure—hence our almost addictive desire for success. If we want to experience fulfillment in life we must unlearn its false notions and then relearn its true meaning.

People are scared of the truth because they’re accustomed to living in the darkness and calling it a reality.

It is a reality for them. Subjective reality.However, this is not reality, this is an illusion. The truth is what reveals the illusion.And allows you to step into the actual reality where you are in Alignment with You. Whatever you need to sacrifice, do it. Because living the opposite way means sacrificing the highest stake: You.

And for what?

For gaining a lie at the expense of You, of everything you can ever become, you can ever create, you can ever do and experience.

For gaining the illusion of safety and security, instead of the real thing. For gaining the ultimate hollowness at the expense of the fullness of your soul.

Most of the time we let our desires determine our happiness. However, the function of desire often works against us in the obtainment of fulfillment. First of all, desire places a condition on our happiness—we must achieve something before we are happy. Happiness is not an emotion but a state of being.

Thus, to place a standard on our being,such as fulfilling a desire,we end up limiting our experiences. If we can remove these standards we begin to recognize the totality of each moment. Once we realize we lack nothing, we experience profound peace and happiness and the whole world belongs to us.

One of the surest ways to fall short of fulfillment is to place happiness as the result of any goal. Happiness is not to be achieved from any outside source; it is a state of spiritual wealth we must come to know within ourselves.

When we set out to achieve happiness it always eludes us. If we share it with others, we cannot help but experience it for ourselves. Therefore, one of the secrets to true fulfillment in life is to be cautious of achieving happiness, and instead happily achieve.

Even the obtainment of worthy goals starts from knowing ourselves within. When we are in touch with the truth of our existence, we lack nothing. Desires are spontaneous and creative, rather than from a place of neediness. Before you pursue any desire, discover your true intentions. Are they lacking, or are they from wholeness? Inner fulfillment in life purifies us, removing the attachment to outer fulfillment.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -what happens with the rest?