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thinking caused me to break down the term ‘self-realized’. The first definition that pops up via Google search is “fulfillment of one’s own potential” and that comes naturally from being self-real. Self-realization is simply realizing yourself as ‘you’.
Taking it down further into the essentials, we’re left with the Greek-Zen, two-word Athenian temple motto, “know thyself”. How did the people that followed this two word philosophy, as a spiritual practice and religion, view value and success? The answers to those fundamental self-questions are your own and can change.
You can write them down every year – a list of what you value, or you can ask what exactly is going on in a heated moment and have a session of brutal yet loving self-honesty on what sort of mental gymnastics are keeping you from getting to your own truth. The intensity of which you want success in this manner is at your speed and capacity for self-dialogue and growth.
Life is meaningful to the degree to what we give it meaning. After thinking of the values of life in terms of what they mean to me personally, my whole definition of life changed. Has this become a scramble of metacognition and vocabulary? What does success mean when you don’t know the definition of value? Can I revise to make my life feel more successful? There’s an infinite amount of self-questions you can come up with if you follow this string of logic. I treat success and value as totally individual things and to each their own.
We live in an age that would have been the dreams of past explorers. I’ve found that most people yearn for the feelings of expansion and adventure in their loves, inside and out. Become your own navigator by learning to read your inner compass. I hope something in here stirs beautiful waves of success in your life, whatever that may mean.
ZERO KAZAMA is an actor, producer and stuntman most recognised for his role as the host of MTV’s hit show Silent Library and Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior.
"I start walking to the edge and take a deep breath, I look u p at the sky and say goodbye" loud."
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