When thoughts of your personal success stop mattering to you, when you say, “There is something more important than my personal success,” then you have really succeeded.
It has to be so big that you forget about your failures, your happiness, your sadness.
Somebody comes and tells you, “But you are sad!”
You say, “Oh! Am I sad? I just forgot that.”
Somebody comes and tells you, “You have not had meals since the last 36 hours!”
You say, “Oh! Am I hungry? I just forgot that. I was so engrossed in something large, in something meaningful that I totally forgot my personal appetite. It just vanished. Now that you have reminded me, I have also started feeling hungry, but for the last 36 hours hunger didn’t matter. I didn’t even know that I was hungry. All my attention was dedicated towards something broader, larger.”
