What is your definition of Success?

[musicandmath111]

What is your definition of success? For real now! What is Success with a capital S? Who would you consider to be truly succesful?

[P Michael]

High quality of life. 

[musicandmath111]

19 minutes ago, P Michael said:

High quality of life. 

And what does that entail?

[Eph75]

@musicandmath111

Success being a product of your sense-making, there's no ultimate definition of success, and it's likely to be reductionistic in nature, to a point that reduction no longer matters to you, and the balance, or harmony, between showing up in the world of form, and not being defined by it happens. 

It's where spirituality and worldly calling fuses into one. 

Being and doing in harmony, and a detachment from outcomes where the doing is experienced as being free, and the rewards of doing is the being itself in the moment of whatever doing allows for that harmony.

The means to reach success is thus independent of external factors as it calls for an internal shift. And, when that internal shift has happened, what was previously perceived as external resistence towards a desired outcome, no longer is experiences as an obstacle but instead as an intrically interweaved component of what is, where doing shows up.

Success in that sense becomes not the addition of, or the craving of, bound to the external worlds, but the subtraction of the very [internal] noise that prevents harmony from happening.

The doing before and after could be the same. Yet the experienced freedom when the means no longer are dictated by desires coming from deficiencies, likely results in flexing and flowing away from anything that is static or is forced into creation. 

Here, three components show up:

The territory, where the doing shows up - the direction, what that doing is entailing - and the influence, our being, and how we manifest ourselves into the doing.

Success being the harmony of these components. 

Who? Does not matter, as there's only me in this. 

Edited October 3, 2022 by Eph75

[Alexop]

Idk what to say about the absolute Success, maybe that would be God realization. I could answer only to the relative success. For me success means achieving a stable happy life, not just a hedonistic dopamine-depression rollercoaster. Success is achieving my dream career and help as many people as possible. Success means behaviour change not just ideas and opinons, making every part of my life work well. Have a clean room, healthy diet, do sports, spiritual achievement etc.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Alexop

[Lila9]

Success for me is to be free, make art, read, practice spirituality, write, volunteer somewhere and contribute to society somehow.

Not necessarily being rich but to have enough money at least for my basic needs.  

Having healthy relationships, whether it's romantic or not.

Also staying healthy both mentaly and physically, being heald with a clear mind.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Lila9

[Arthogaan]

Freedom.

Freedom from you own lack beliefs.
Freedom from constant chatter of your mind.
Freedom from needing anything outside yourself to make you happy (like relationship, nice house,)
Freedom from having to work (financial freedom).

One of the best words for who we really are is Freedom. You can not just show it, it is undefineable like Consciousness.

[Tefikos]

Being satisfied with life. I don't think anymore that I need to arceive something in life to be succesful. Yes, there are things that I still want to arceive, but I work at the same time for letting go of the attachment to those things. I just get so deep satisfaction from god-realization, that all other pursuits will fall flat in the end. Arceiving and experiencing things in life is more like a game, its wonderful, but it's just my imagination that I play with.

[gettoefl]

Quote

“Nothing can make you happy or successful. These are inner constructs that you bring to your world, rather than what you receive from it. Success and happiness are up to you to embody before you leave the house every morning. Accomplish your agenda before even thinking of anyone else's.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

[King Merk]

Idk about success with a capital S but for me success is the honoring of my top values in life.

When I live an authentic life in accordance to what’s important to me that means I’m successful.

Success = Being true to who I am 

[Danioover9000]

@musicandmath111

21 hours ago, musicandmath111 said:

What is your definition of success? For real now! What is Success with a capital S? Who would you consider to be truly succesful?

   Money, sex and success.

[Proserpina]

A fluid reality while balanced.

Basking in reality itself. Beauty streaming through. 

[Loba]

A proper death, one where I understood where I was going, what I would be doing and if I would be safe, secure and stripped of my impurities.  Something essentially good and True to me.  I think the whole purpose of life is to come to understand death, that in some sense they are one and the same.  That those who don't seek to understand its wisdom miss out.

I would throw this life away, just to come to understand if maybe, perhaps there are better tomorrows.

"Hide and seek"

Edited October 4, 2022 by Loba

[UnbornTao]

Accomplishing whatever you set out to accomplish.

[Jacob Morres]

The progressive actualization of your values 

Edited October 7, 2022 by Jacob Morres