Keys To Successful Living
Part 1
Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the
keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those
potentials within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it
is divided into two aspects—life within and life without; internal life and
external life – and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even
if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in
the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We
still have to see what we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on
time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal
world.
Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the
word “relationship” properly, because life itself is actually relationship. The
body is related to breath, and the breath is related to mind. The body, breath,
senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means
relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of
one’s relationship to the external world and the relationship within oneself.
All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are
not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a
successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be happy
externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others
happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.
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