Success and integrity

Action is your response to an external challenge.

There is a distinction between outcome and process.

Every action has two purposes:
1) Acting to get certain results (= outcome orientation; "what" has been achieved)
2) Acting to express certain values (= process orientation; "how" has it been achieved)


Hence, an action can be evaluated in two ways
1) Success measures the alignment between the desired and the real results of an action
2) Integrity measures the alignment between the values and the behavior during an action

The soul within our body is like a bird within a cage

In human society there must be a proper balance between spirit and matter. We are actually spirit souls...encaged within material bodies. A civilization that simply looks after bodily necessities and does not care for the necessities of the soul is a foolish, unbalanced civilization. If one only takes care of the cage, how can the bird within it be happy.

(Srila Prabhupada, 1978)