Below is a post I made here in March 2018, six years ago. I don’t usually re-post past entries, but I was reminded how important it is to find and follow our highest endeavor and destiny. It is in adding to what we have previously written, we take the next step in 
fine-tuning our own enlightenment, growth, and evolution.
fine-tuning our own enlightenment, growth, and evolution.Added since my previous entry asking, what does Lent mean… The Christian meaning of Lent revolves around preparation, reflection, and penance. During Lent, Christians often engage in practices such as fasting, prayer, and almsgiving as a way to deepen their connection with God and to reflect on the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
All the qualities that the great masters found; we can attain as well. It all depends on
our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowing, and our correct motivation. – Ogyen Trinley Dorje. For many years Ogyen Trinley Dorje has emphasized the importance of preserving Tibetan culture, unity, language, and literacy; underlining the importance of sustaining the written and spoken Tibetan language, because it is the very root of the Dharma in Tibet and its culture.
How do we learn to listen to, speak and write from our inner voice? How do we learn to act on our highest calling or endeavor? We do so innately, by and through discretion, insight and wisdom.
Modeling our thoughts and behavior from what we have learned and observed, and from this we know how to proceed. How do we inspire others to do the same? How do we learn not to be fixed in our thoughts going this way or that, when we ourselves don’t know, or
are not aware of what the final outcome of where a particular path may lead.When a basic law of the universe is that all things must change. Everything is in constant flux, even if the changes are minuscule. Essentially, all things in the universe are always changing, even if it’s just on an energetic level—and because of that, even tiny actions can have big effects.
Nothing ever remains the same and as we continue to grow neither do we. That the first
step to change is learning forgiveness. Forgiving ourselves, as well as those around us, for not meeting expectations that were not all that important to begin with.That it is when we become fixed in a certain way, we too begin to die. It is nature’s way of replenishing itself.
As most of those following me here know, I recently posted something about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. In addition to several hundred “likes”, I received four or five comments from people who 
had terrible things to say about Gandhi. I could not understand such vitriol for a man who changed the world and the lives of millions of people for the better.
had terrible things to say about Gandhi. I could not understand such vitriol for a man who changed the world and the lives of millions of people for the better.Even for myself, I have quoted him in my books and writing. His line attributed to him “We must be the change we want to see in the world”, is one of the most transformative statement’s one could make or say.
Were either of them perfect – no. And then we look to our own frailties and have to ask… are we, and then acknowledge that perhaps it was their struggles and greatness that may have contributed to our own awakening.
To maybe take the higher path, or road, that ultimately defines us as well. History ultimately always tells the story. Gandhi’s influence lives beyond him and he will be considered immortal because of it. Who and what is it that tells the memories of times
gone by as we help others to remember what they too may have forgotten.In ancient China, as with every civilization, we learned that our actions lead to consequences. If we start a fire… things will burn. If uncontrolled then the fire will burn everything in its path. When the flood comes, there is no safely until or unless you reach higher ground. Nature re-constructs from what is left behind just as we do from those we follow.
We build on the strengths and weakness of ourselves and others and gain wisdom,
insight, and discretion along the way. Our words and actions express this every day. They serve to define us and have consequences as well. That it is what inspires us that guides our way. It’s like following directions will get us there so we take them.It is as Robert Frost said, that it is the road not taken that leads us to a different reality that could have been our best way to go. Ultimately it is what we “take away” from the experience that guides us.
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