True Joy comes from embracing the Journey, Not from the Rewards for Goals Achieved
There is no “getting there”!
Once we arrive somewhere, we realise there is still a journey ahead of us. Growth and evolution never stops. Each time we awaken to, or arrive at a higher level of awareness, degree of enlightenment, or even what we label full enlightenment – we discover there are higher and vaster vistas of consciousness available before us – to explore, and grow into.
So there is no “getting there”! Each there is just another base to grow from.
This being so – it is best to dispense with the very mindset of “reward for achievement of goals”, and replace it with eternal satisfaction in the journey!
Sure, we will still focus on tasks and goals in daily life, but let us not sacrifice Life to these, thinking once we have achieved whatever captures our imagination, it is going to bring us Peace, or Happiness, or Liberation, or whatever else we set as rewards for completion. For once “there”, even this will soon fail to deliver satisfaction – the pull of growth and evolution will ensure this.
So, rather than setting ourselves up for deep and painful dissatisfaction, and a perpetual clawing through life seeking rewards whose value will fade far faster than the time taken to achieve them, let us surrender rewards for goals and embrace “Joy in the Journey”.