Aspiration of the Soul

Aspiration is the desire to achieve something. Aspiration is something most people do not have, not because they do not want it, but because they do not know. Aspiration is ambition and desire combined. To aspire is to make the effort to shake off the shackles of desperate hopelessness.

Do you have the life you want right now? Are you happy and content with the way things are with you? Probably not or you would not be here looking at this. So what can you do to turn it all around and make your life the one you have always dreamed of? Forget yourself entirely; give up on who you are right now. Who and what you are obviously is not working out, so since it is not serving you, get rid of it.

What you need do is to decide right now what it is that you desire from life. How do you want to be remembered, for something worthy, not at all, or something in between? Take a moment right now and think, what is it you want to be. Write this down, look at it, and ask your self why you are not that person.

To become that person you will have to lose the old person to become the new person, and you do so with aspiration. You will change who you are from what you are right now, to the person you should be. That person whom you should be is waiting, but to become that person you must remove the parts of you that are not what you aspire to be.

Whatever you decided you should be, you must aspire to become that person by staying focused on your desired outcome. You must not look back, you must not mourn your old self, you must focus on your new self and using aspiration you become that person.

Aspiration involves action, which means work. You will have to be doing something to achieve your stated goal. Aspiration is your desire turned towards the divine. By using aspiration you remove the destructive forces of selfish desire and focus only on permanent satisfaction. As you rise above your old selfish sordid self, you break the chains that were holding you in a life of misery.

Here is the part that stops most people from aspiration. You have to give to be great. People hear that word give and react like a two year old with a new toy: No mine, Mine, and MINE! If you have something that is so near and dear to you that you are not willing to give it up then you are being held in the chains of self bondage. If you can not willingly give then you have closed the doors of prosperity and success. But what must you give? You must give your self and be willing to give all of your self and all that you think you have.

The giving must be of the heart, and not with a selfish taint. If you are hurt that after you have given and did not receive thanks, or flattery, or reward then you know your giving was from vanity. Aspiring to become something demands that your actions be sincere and not just going through the motions. You must at all costs avoid selfishness and vanity, lest you will surrender your chances of happiness and peace.

Does this mean give away all that you own so that you can be rich? Not at all, if this is what you think then you have missed the point. You must be willing to give all you have, and give only when the giving will do well for others. To buy groceries for those who have none will do you well, but to give money to the charity so you end up in the paper will result in only more suffering.

What you must focus all the more on is the losing of your self. You must give up the old you; allow that person to fade away. Focus on the aspiration of the new person you are endeavoring to become. Give up and give away the old to make room for the new. Instead of grasping for what you think you want, give of your self to others and you will reap un-ending happiness.

Be Blessed.