Everyone holds in high regard, those who “dream big,” “have goals,” and want to “achieve success” in some way. Our entire society is centered around this mindset.

I invite you to consider that this mindset creates and perpetuates the feeling of, “not enough.”

Who is to say that having dreams and goals is optimal, while living each day as it is, without a goal in sight is less than optimal?

We live in a society that pushes perpetual goal setting, and those with goals are identified as “intelligent,” “brilliant,” and “important.”

We encourage and support each other most when we’re chasing dreams outside of ourselves. Building businesses to feed people, earning college degrees, losing weight, making money, being a contribution to the world… those are admirable pursuits.

What about those who don’t do those things? They don’t get so much attention. Who encourages someone to do nothing?

Ask someone what their vision is for their future and if they tell you they have none, you might be quick to think they’re a loser.

What if pursuing goals is a sham? An illusion designed to keep you tied to the physical world to keep striving for more and more and more… to distract you from knowing the Truth.

What if you already are a contribution to the world just by existing?

What if you’re not a contribution to the world and that’s perfect?

What if there’s no such thing as being a contribution to the world because the world doesn’t need a contribution because it’s already the contribution itself?

What if just existing is all there is to do and goals and dreams are meaningless?

What if complete satisfaction begins where the desire to be more ends?

What would you have to give up to rest in such a complete place?

Who would you be if you had nothing left to pursue, no desires, and had no vested interest in the outcome of your own life or the world?

What if dropping your attachment to outcomes is the necessary ingredient to achieve lasting contentment?

Struggle, struggle, sleep, sleep. Open one eye – go back to sleep. Strive, strive, sleep. Open the other eye – go back to sleep.