A Lifestyle of Shmiras Einayim

What does it mean to [music] have shmiras einayim? A life of shmiras einayim is a lifestyle in which a person operates throughout the day with [music] a sense of purpose, a sense of mission, a sense of inner drive, and with a feeling and a compulsion that you are here to affect, [music] you are not here to be affected. That's what it means to have shmiras einayim in a much broader sense. Living a life of where it's all about what you need and [music] what the world can provide for you. Taking in from the world, that's a lifestyle of superficiality. That's a lifestyle [music] of no shmiras einayim. But the way to shmiras einayim is to embrace the truth, which is we are all shluchim. We were sent here from [music] a higher place for one purpose and one purpose alone, to turn this world into a dirah b'tachtonim, into [music] a place for God's presence. That's why we're here, nothing more and nothing less. And when a person goes through life with that sense of purpose, that sense of mission, [music] that's called you are not seeing things, visions, and colors, and sensations are not entering into [music] you. You are influencing the world. When you are influencing the world, there's simply not enough time for the world to influence you. [music] Hashem should watch each and every one of us. We should live a lifestyle of shmiras einayim and with that comes all the brachos in the world.