The greatest source of human suffering comes from two concepts that life itself does not recognize: failure and goals.
Here is the liberating truth: You will never fail, because life does not allow you to fail. Furthermore, because there are fundamentally no goals set by existence, you will never be disappointed.
The Trap of Mental Goals
If you feel disappointed, it is only because of the mental goals and objectives that you have imposed on your life.
The ego creates a target and pours all its energy into reaching it. But what happens when you finally achieve that goal?
When you reach those goals of yours, life abandons them; then only the dead skin of those ideals and goals remains… and you get disappointed again and again.
That disappointment is a structure you have created. Life moves on, but you are left clinging to the empty shell of an achieved goal, instantly recognizing the hollow feeling of “Is that all there is?”
Flowing Without Fear
The moment you realize that life is never limited to the goals you have set, you break free. You start flowing in all directions without any fear.
This freedom—the release from externally defined objectives—is a radical state. Because there is no goal to be achieved, there is no failure to be achieved, and therefore there is no success. The entire stressful duality collapses.
Every Moment is a Diamond
When you stop measuring existence by achievement, then there is no disappointment. Every single moment transforms:
- Every moment becomes its own moment—it is not seen as a stepping stone or a means to an end.
- Life ceases to be about “taking you somewhere or placing you somewhere.”
Life has its own intrinsic value. Every moment is a diamond. You move from one diamond to the next, but there is no end to anything; it is infinite.
Life is simply alive; there is no death to the flow. Embrace the infinite moment, and escape the finite tyranny of goals.