What does it take to serve a purpose?
“Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective. It is the movement of life itself, a process, and an activity. It arises from curiosity and discovery. Seek pleasure and you will quickly discover the shortest path to suffering.”
Knights and Kingdom
I named my company “Knights and Kingdom” because I want to commit to a high standard of serving, qualities like the knights serve his kingdom.
Recently, I read an interesting article on the rules of a knight. The rules stipuates how one should behave and there can be no better blueprint if you are looking for self-improvement to become a strong, humble and reliable entrepreneurs looking to serve a purpose.
We will go over each of the 20 rules of a knight over the next 20 days.
The story
n 1483, Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke of Cornwall was among 323 killed at the Battle of Slaughter Bridge. Foreseeing this outcome, Sir Thomas wrote a letter to his children in Cornish outlining the Rules for a Knight — the life lessons Sir Thomas wished to pass along to his four children.
The severely damaged letter was adapted and reconstructed by Ethan Hawke, after the family discovered it in the early 1970s in the basement of the family farm near Waynesville, Ohio.
Rule 1 of a Knight
1. Solitude
Create time alone with yourself. When seeking the wisdom and clarity of your own mind, silence is a helpful tool. The voice of our spirit is gentle and cannot be heard when it has to compete with others. Just as it is impossible to see your reflection in troubled water, so too is it with the soul. In silence, we can sense eternity sleeping inside us.
In solitude, we can more easily connect with the universe mind, which is within us. The wisdom that enables us to see into the underlying nature of a thing and to discern the true essence. To see the truth, to see something for what it really is. To look past appearance.
There we can find the intelligence of understanding and knowledge which we possess, academically, worldly and socially. There we can find solutions to all our problems. There we can think clearly.
In Solitude with ourselves
When we are in solitude, we have nobody to communicate with except ourselves. And all day long we communicate with everyone else except ourselves. So this creates a wonderful opportunity to ask ourselves:
- how we are feeling
- how is everything going
- what do I really want
- what is my priority
- what is more important for me
- what I want to become/improve on
- what am i grateful for
Or simply stay in silence, being conscious of our own breathe. Concentrate... Meditate…
These practices and exercises help us focus on our goals and untie any knots. It feels amazing:)
Follow me when we continue to talk other knight’s rule in the next 19 days.
