Your Actions are Your Prayers

 

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Gusto ko mabright, madato… o gusto ko magkugi, para mabright hasta madato?

There are people who consume too much information and process them. They will then possess a confidence based on the things that they know. Yet, one can wonder if the set of knowledge in one’s head would be enough to see others differently.

Developing one’s intelligence is a goal. There is nothing wrong about it. But what is the deeper meaning of acquiring such? Which will bring us to the discourse of INTENTIONS rather than goals.

Intentions according to Tumblin (2022) are the reasons behind what you do (i.e. the action). One’s actions naturally follow from one’s intentions.

But isn’t this the same with motivation?

Intention is what (the thing) you want to create and motivation is how you feel about what you're going to do or create (Ruelle, 2016). Therefore, intentions are deliberate while motivations are attached to feelings.

While intentions are deep, there are those who stop doing the things they do since their feelings changed. They become unmotivated. Those with strong predisposition continue the task deliberately. They WILL to do it.

Which goes back to query: What is your deliberate intent to consume information? Isn’t this to process them and create an output for the greater good? If not, what? Pure entertainment and self-consumption? Then, is your intention clear that you need to be well-informed to be a better public servant or leader?

Still, the reactive personalities will then retort: What is it to you? They will then remind us to mind our own business.

There are also those whose intentions are bad. That is the reason why our moral compass must be attuned well.

In a spiritual concept, our intentions and actions are our prayers.

According to Henderson (2022): Prayer and the power of intention are fundamentally one and the same thing; processes in which your mind has a particular focus: a healing, a desire, or an intervention of some kind.

Spiritual individuals, those who touch base with their core, are always reconciling their actions with their intentions. Those who are relying more on motivations oftentimes go astray.