Today is October 28 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you defining and discovering your destiny?”
People who find a way to navigate the chaos spend a good deal of time thinking about their destiny.
The etymology of destiny is from the Old French meaning “to make firm or establish.” What is it that you want to make firm or establish with your life?
Over the centuries many authors have commented on man’s search for destiny.
The twentieth-century German-born poet, novelist, and painter Herman Hesse wrote “Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
In 2008 David B. Wolf published Relationships that Work: The Power of Conscious Living and referred to a word closely related to destiny but one that has a richer history – dharma.
According to Wolf “To enrich understanding of our innate spiritual qualities, the principle of dharma is very helpful. Dharma refers to ‘that which cannot be separated from a thing.’ Fire, for example, can be used for different purposes, such as cooking. Cooking however is not the dharma of fire, because fire can exist without cooking. Heat is the dharma of fire. Heat is an intrinsic, inseparable quality of fire.”
How often do you define your destiny or dharma?
What have you done lately to ensure that you are living your destiny or dharma?
And how often do you use excuses because you are unable to fulfill your destiny or dharma?