The Fountain Within

Dearly lovely people,

The Bible in John 4:15 recounts a beautiful conversation between Jesus and a Samaritan woman. Jesus told her “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

When you reach the point where your self-motivation flows from within like a fountain, rising up to the top becomes much easier. Unfortunately most of the times, we run into difficulties in our quest for a better and rewarding life because we allow ourselves to get confuse between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

Consider for a moment the source of your motivation to rise to the top, is it from within (intrinsic) or external? Are you fully engaged in such a quest so the world around you get to know how powerful you are or much more because you want to satisfy yourself, you want to live happily and want to safeguard a better future for you and your family? Many are those who crave success just so they can showoff and be adored wherever they go.

Ben Sweetland sensibly says that “The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”

I join Marcus Aurelius to state unequivocally that you should “look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”