Effortlessness
Effortlessness is the key to success. Don’t fight. Don’t try hard.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Our society is based on the “will principle”: whatever we want we can get, as long as we work hard enough for it. There is, of course, some truth in that: without hard work we will not achieve very much.
But there’s another aspect of it. Sometimes we just decide - mainly with our heads - that we want or need to reach something. We struggle hard to get there, and there’s not much joy in the process. Once we’ve reached our goal we may even realise that that was not what we really wanted deep inside.
We have to listen to our hearts and to our gut feeling when deciding what to invest our energy in. When we find something that we’re really interested in, with our heart and with our soul, we gladly invest lots of time and energy in it - and the work flows with joyful effortlessness, without us trying very hard. It’s like when I “study” Botany: I find interesting plants, I learn their names in different languages and see what other plants they’re related to, and without any effort I broaden my knowledge a lot, enjoying every second of it!
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