Your promise is not what you pledge to do. Promise is an intrinsice representation of who you are. There is not much egoic identity to this. The 'pledge' is what you think that you are capable of doing witht the Promise that you find yourself to be.
I have made many pledges throughout my lifetime. So much so to a point of overwhelming proportions. I would always keep thinking I could do so much, but in doing this, it created a backlog that I simply couldn't keep up with. As I look back, I now understand that I was always pledging to do something or to be someone the stance of another person's Promise, and not from my own value.
A pledge does come from a place of authenticity, but that does not necessarily indicate whole-hearted honesty. There is a phrase "I am who I am, as I am." Although, when our pledges are not based off the entirety of who we truly find ourselves to be, the phrase will go a little bit more like "I am who I will be, as I am going to be." That moment never happens now and we live off of an interpretation of life that is hard to understand. We get away from our stance of being and get stuck in doing.
The potential we have comes from our promise, and this developed for me when I was a child. I never really wanted to do anything. The only real desire I envisioned was feeling happy, and having a lot of people around me who were happy as well. Whatever it was that I pledged to do never truly mattered. As I grew into adulthood, I had lost complete sight of this Truth that resided inside of me. Our Promise never dies.
I have rekindled this dimmed flame. Everyday it grows and there are contagious properties to the fire. People around me are more joyful with my prescence. This allows for us to open up more fully and express ourselves from a place of intregrity, honesty, and clarity. Very little goes misunderstood between others and I, and life happens with peace and ease.
Forgo Success, Achieve Fulfillment.
