The Quest – Day 3

Life brings us to our knees. We can’t take it anymore, whatever it is.

In desperation, we begin learning new values and living them in new ways, such as prayer, meditation, or service.Or we’re desperate to reach a goal in our lives: more money, a better job, a change in ourselves. So we begin living new values in order to move closer to desirable changes.For whatever reasons, we begin living by values that work. These values shift our lives. We begin to experience peace and joy.And some of the things we want begin to take place. The pain subsides. The relationship problem improves. We get the new job. The situation becomes better.Then we relax our practice or attach our happiness to the outcome—the external things—forgetting that it was by living these values that we produced our joy.

Challenge: The hardest thing about values is remembering that they are the real treasures.

From the book: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact