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The true benefit of success is the person by which you become in the attainment of it. When you do all you can to achieve your goal, you develop the spiritual qualities needed to achieve it. The acquirement of success causes you to grow beyond what you are, to become more. That is why goals are good for us and they lead to spiritual development. People with no goals do not develop themselves. We all have natural desires and when we allow ourselves to pursue them, we’re transformed in the process.

Some people think that we should seek spirituality rather than the attainment of external things. But the truth is that nothing is external, everything is internal. There is no separation between inner and outer worlds because they are both one world. The world itself is your consciousness. What you do in it, you are doing in consciousness. By rejecting the external, you reject the internal. Abstain from the external and your inner world is lacking. Those who are truly enlightened embrace both worlds in totality.
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Contrary to what most might think, achieving your desire is not less valid or less important than spiritual development. Spirit lives to express itself. In order to express itself, it must know itself. Spiritual development is the purpose of rediscovering who you really are as a divine being, so that you can be, do and have anything you desire. After rediscovering who you really are, you don’t just stay there. You move into creating whatever you wish. It won’t be complete if you don’t end up getting what you want.

Desire is the whole purpose of all things and the reason for creation. Creation is an expression of desire. You create because you want to have something. Desire is the very reason why God creates or created the universe. There can be no other reason. God did not create because he had to, or because logic compelled him to. He creates because he wants to, and desire springs forth within logic. The universe is mental, and all things including desire exist within the logos. Creation is for experiencing being.

Therefore by having goals and pursuing the achievement of them, you are being like God, a creator. You are creating your world which is what you were designed for. You were created to be a creator. Anything that is created in the likeness of The Creator would possess its nature and qualities. God created the universe before he created the crowning achievement of it which is you. Now he is creating through you. Your pursuit of the achievement of desired goals is how you continue the work of The Creator.

You are the embodiment of life itself. It is God who wants to make music, travel the world, build large empires, create beautiful artwork, enjoying loving relationships and experiencing financial abundance through you. The goals that you have in heart are the goals God has for you. It is because they are inspired goals. Even if they are not inspired goals, the achievement of any goal will result in spiritual development. But the achievement of inspired goals will bring you the greatest spiritual development of all.

People may try to pursue spiritual progress by itself and think they are making progress at it. But they have no way to prove it without any external achievements to reflect their inner power. Power is not something static. Power is the capacity to do and to accomplish things. Without accomplishment and achievement of external goals, there is no proof, measure or manifestation of power. God designed the universe for spiritual development and material achievement to go together. Inner corresponds with outer.

In the end it is all about results. When you get what you want, it means you applied to correct spiritual principle. Otherwise it was just nonsense. There are many spiritual perceptions about what is the correct way to be, do or have things. Some may even conflict with each other. The only way to know for sure is to put them to the test in the actual pursuit of goals and see what actually works. Supposedly spiritual people can talk about principles but those who test them actively can know those things for sure.

The ultimate success formula states that you have to test different ways of doing things to find those that are most effective in getting you the results you want. But you have to test even spiritual matters and not just physical ones. You must experience for yourself what is true rather than simply accepting what is taught. This is the true path of intelligence. Those who test and see what really works are the ones who manage to get what they want. The rest who accept teachings blindly never succeed fully.

True faith is knowing. When you know something because it has been proven, you are not having blind faith. Faith means power to believe in the true. Faith is the capacity of the mind to receive true thoughts. In order for faith to be complete, it must be put to the test. That is why you experience trials and problems that seem to come out of nowhere. They were created in pursuit of a certain goal in order for you to discover both the spiritual and physical methods that will truly work in getting the results desired.

All manifestation and creation is based on two words “How To”. Much of the knowledge you learn is about discovering “How To” do something or make something happen. Variations of the words are “How can this happen, how can this be possible, how can I have this…etc.” It’s all about the “How To”. There is an exact process by which things happen. By discovering the “How To”, you understand How Things Work, and by focusing on the “How To”, you get insights, ideas and understanding about how to make it happen, and also because your focus is on what you want, you attract more of that into your experience.

There are many things to be in the future which you may not have the power now to believe. But you can if the thing deemed impossible be desirable, pray or demand a faith which shall give you reason for believing, and such faith will come in response to demand. Faith and reason are one. When you strongly desire a thing, you’ll naturally find a reason why it’s possible to attain it. It’s your love for that thing that compels you to have faith for it. Spiritual development is attainment of power to get what you love.[/hidepost]