Creating Our Path
By Darryl Duke. Filed in Belief |Tags: creating our path, emmet fox, personal and spiritual growth, true happiness
Some people believe we’re put on a path at birth that leads to our destiny, and while I believe we are here for a reason, I also believe I’ve had a lot to do with creating my own path in life, especially in my sobriety. There have been several books written about having the power to create our lives the way we want them to be. Most of them basically claim that we can create our own happiness by getting everything we want in life like more money, a bigger home, and other material things. One even professed that nothing is impossible, and whatever we can dream of can be ours once we know the secret. The book that stands out the most to me, however, doesn’t do this. It was published in 1932 which is long before any of these other books were even around. It’s called Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox, and it doesn’t talk about creating happiness through materialistic gains. Instead, it explains what the key to success in life is, and how it can be obtained. My happiness in life came about through a continual striving for personal and spiritual growth, but I will say I was fortunate to find this book at a time when I didn’t have a whole lot of faith in myself, or a god. Fortunately, today whenever I let doubts creep in about my future and my ability to create it the way I would like it to be, I know everything will be all right. This is because success in life for me isn’t creating wealth and material things to make me happy, but creating the type of happiness that these things can’t bring which is true happiness. My definition of true happiness is loving ourselves enough to be happy with who we are. I wrote in my book how I eventually became happy with who I was, and I also wrote about something else that helped me to be happy with myself. “On the days when my belief in a creator and myself are strong, I feel an inner joy that’s different from any other happiness I experience.” This too is part of having true happiness, and no amount of material wealth can replace it.
Friday, April 2nd 2010 at 9:37 PM |
Hi Darryl,
The blog carnival seems to have several submissions on self help so I thought I would include one of your articles too. The only thing we can do is be the best person that we can TODAY and then again when tomorrow is today. In that way we will always be growing.