You are a "You" Potentiality

“We are hoard­ing poten­tials so great they are just about unimag­in­able.“
– Jack Schwartz

“Human­ity has only scratched the sur­face of its real poten­tial.” “You are within God. God is within you.“
– Peace Pil­grim (1900–1981)

Come to think of it, by def­i­n­i­tion suc­cess is an end-​​result or an achieve­ment of some sort. But true suc­cess, how­ever, doesn’t stop after you’ve reached a goal or cease once you’ve attained a cer­tain rank. If you want to be suc­cess­ful, you will have to accept that suc­cess is an ongo­ing process.

For instance, once (you think) you’ve achieved all that you can, have you really reached your true poten­tial? Are you truly suc­cess­ful then? Of course not, unless you died at that exact, very moment! I don’t mean to sound face­tious, but for as long as you live you can never fully achieve that which is infi­nitely pos­si­ble. And your spir­i­tual nature is indeed infinite.

In essence, your suc­cess­ful­ness is and will always be greater than what you can ever pos­si­bly con­ceive. Look at the word “poten­tial,” for a moment. “Poten­tial” implies that which is not yet attained or that which has not yet been real­ized. And the truth is that you always have a poten­tial; you always have a spirit.

So, as long as you have a poten­tial — which you always do, of course — you will never be able to fully achieve this infinite­ness that you are in truth. You can not mea­sure the mea­sure­less nor can you add form to the formless.

There­fore, when I refer to “reach­ing” your poten­tial, I’m not refer­ring to suc­cess as a result or an event but to the process of con­nect­ing with or tap­ping into your inner­most essence, or in other words of grad­u­ally trans­lat­ing your spir­i­tual nature into real­ity. You see, you always have a poten­tial. Always. It never dies, it never changes, and it is always express­ing itself.

As a result, you are con­stantly evolv­ing, grow­ing, chang­ing, with every sin­gle moment of your life. What you express is a sym­bol of that which can not be mea­sured. Your poten­tial suc­cess­ful­ness is invis­i­ble. It is your higher self. It is your spir­i­tual nature. Try to remain idle and you’ll see that it’s impos­si­ble. Try not to change and, in the very least, you will be grow­ing older… But you are still grow­ing nonethe­less, no mat­ter how hard you try to stop it.

The proof that you’re always reach­ing your poten­tial is the fact that you are not the same as you were before, whether it’s a sec­ond ago or a decade ago. Hence, your high­est poten­tial, that thing that was you before you were born and lives on after you die, is eter­nal and change­less. In other words, your higher self is intrin­sic. It is infi­nite. It is invaluable.

Para­dox­i­cally, you may accom­plish some great thing and cat­e­go­rize that as suc­cess, but true suc­cess doesn’t come from some­thing out­side of you but from con­nect­ing with that which is within. There­fore, when you trust in your high­est nature you are bring­ing to your life a sense of pur­pose. Whether you achieve some­thing or not in the exter­nal world is of no importance.

True suc­cess comes from liv­ing on pur­pose. It’s some­thing you already have and was never out­side of you in the first place. Your suc­cess doesn’t come from the value you have asso­ci­ated to some exter­nal accom­plish­ment but from your inner, intrin­sic value. Sim­ply put, suc­cess is no more than a con­nec­tion. It’s the process of retriev­ing into that lim­it­less part of that which you really are.

You can not seek what you already pos­sess. There­fore, you are — or have the means to become — suc­cess­ful right here, right now. You are a suc­cess because you will always be a “You” poten­tial­ity, a poten­tial wait­ing to emerge. You can surely observe the phys­i­cal “You,” but you can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell a “poten­tial,” can you?

Whether you try to do as much as pos­si­ble, own as much as pos­si­ble, or get as much approval as pos­si­ble, those things may seem real to you because they are dimen­sional, tan­gi­ble and mea­sur­able. But they do not make the real you. These exter­nal results are only glimpses of who you are poten­tially, but glimpses never give you the “big picture.”

So, never under­es­ti­mate your­self. Never. And most impor­tant, believe in your­self because you are worth it whether you know it or not. Think­ing that you are a fail­ure is just as worse as think­ing that you are a suc­cess, espe­cially when you jus­tify either one accord­ing to some exter­nal event or result.

Always remem­ber the “big picture.”

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