Suddenly wanted to share this with you ,Because the topic seems very important to me.
"What does success look like from a spiritual perspective?"
I would like to divide this question into two parts first.
- spirituality
- success
Now I will try to discuss spirituality first.
Basically spirituality is a human feeling. It is entirely a state or feeling of mind that is governed by love, contentment, joy or euphoria. Spirituality has been defined by many in biological, psychological, psychological, philosophical terms and attempts have been made to determine its source.
Since spirituality is an invisible thing, it cannot be seen with the eyes. It has to be understood only with the heart.
Now I will try to write about success.
Success is something that is very easy to see in the eyes of people.
For example,
Some have houses, cars, gold jewelry and lots of wealth.
Or someone is very good at studies. With very good results, one gets a chance to enter many good jobs in life.
People generally recognize these as successes.
But in my opinion, happiness is inextricably linked with success.
Rich, poor, happy, unhappy in the society; People living in different styles. But finding happy people nowadays is like a bowl of golden stones. Not everyone can be happy. But it doesn't take money to be happy. Happiness is definitely possible if you have your own will. It is not difficult to be happy if you are content with what you have, if you find joy. Happiness is relative.
But it should be remembered that only being a rich person can make you happy, not that. Happiness can be found in a small cottage.
In this context, I would like to present an example to you.
Femi Otedola, the rich businessman who owns a Nigerian oil company, was once telling many unknown things about his life in a radio interview. At one point in the conversation, the host asked him, 'Do you have any memories of when you felt like you were the happiest and most successful person in the world?'
Otedola then said, "In my life I went through four stages in my search for happiness and success. Then I finally found true happiness and success.
The first stage was to earn as much wealth as possible. But despite achieving everything, I did not see happiness.
Then the second stage was to buy expensive and luxury items. I thought I would get happiness through it. But even this time I did not find happiness.
After that, in the third stage, I started taking on big projects myself. At one time I was the supplier of 95% of diesel to Nigeria and Africa. I had the largest ship in Africa and Asia. But still I was not happy.
In this situation, my mental weakness was increasing.
Just then a friend of mine asked to buy wheelchairs for 200 disabled children.
My friend requested me to hand over the wheelchairs to disabled children myself.
At the request of a friend, when I was handing over the wheelchairs to the children. And they got the wheelchairs, sitting in them and running here and there. What an unearthly smile on each one's face. As if there was no happier day in their lives.
Then when I was going to leave the event suddenly a kid grabbed my leg. I tried to pull my leg away from him, but the kid held on tighter and glared at me.
I knelt down and asked the child, 'Do you need anything else?'
The child said, 'I want to remember your face well. If we meet in heaven, may I recognize you and thank you once again for this day.'
Femi Otedola's eyes watered at the young child's response. He hugged the little child and cried.
Femi Otedola said, this little incident not only made me happy, but since that day, the meaning of life has changed for me. Today I know the definition of success. And I want to live forever with that success.
"What does success look like from a spiritual perspective?"
This is my analysis. This is spiritual success. It can be realized only through the heart. Nothing else.