Now that you have your definition of success, you can identify 25 elements that comprise your perfect life. These elements allow you make your success a reality. These elements include: people and how they treat you possessions which are perfect personal/character traits that you have unique/special skills and talents that you have and love special [...]
Most people define success by their financial status, where they live or what other people are saying about them. To enjoy a Perfect Life, you need to define what success means, on your own terms. For example: I know I am being successful… …by how many whims I am chasing. …by how much open space [...]
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Let us lay hold of faith. What profit is it to us to gain a firm hold on life, if we hold it blindly, without any light on the meaning of our present condition, or the character of our future destiny? Faith holds the key to the blessedness of the eternal life. Faith opens the [...]
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Let us lay hold of sorrow. Do not be afraid of it, for when grasped firmly, like the nettle, it never stings. The life that has not known and accepted sorrow is strangely crude and untaught. It can neither help nor teach, for it has never learned. The life that has spurned the lesson [...]
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Let us lay hold of friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have friends forevermore? I used to think that friendship meant happiness. I have learned that it means discipline. No matter how hard we look, we shall never find a friend without faults, imperfections, traits, and ways that vex, grieve, annoy us. [...]
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Let us lay hold of common tasks and affections. Let us lay hold of the tenderness that belongs to them. Shall we miss all the divine sweetness of life in order to have an ambitious career? Shall we shed home, family, and relatives, in order to learn Sanskrit, ethnology, or philosophy? This is the great danger, [...]
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Let us lay hold of the happiness of today. Don’t we go through life blindly, thinking that some fair tomorrow will bring us the gift we missed today? Poor mortal, when do you think then, to be happy? Tomorrow? When is tomorrow? Is it different from today? Isn’t it just another today? Know if you are not happy today, you [...]
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Let us lay hold of work. There can be no happy life without strenuous unremitting work in it–work which occupies mind, body, heart, and soul. But what work shall we set ourselves to do? This is one of the questions that we encounter when we leave school, and that reappears from time to time as [...]
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Pretence, worry, discontent, and self-seeking–these are the things that we may let go. Now, what are the things in life that are worthwhile–that we should lay hold of, guard and use? It is worthwhile to be wise in the use of time. It is with time that we purchase everything life has that is [...]
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We may let go of self-seeking. In the eternal life there is no greed. One hears of neither “mine” nor “yours.” All things are for all. As sand falls through the fingers, so do the good things of life flee from the grasping and selfish spirit. The richest experiences of life never come to [...]
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