Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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Live Day by Day
Winter 2008
Given at the Lighthouse Center, Inc. 18 August 2007
First of all we are happy that we have a good day. Anyone who wants to live long, learns the art of living by the day. Don't make promises of what you'll do on your birthday, or New Year's resolutions—they fade away. The teaching is: live by the day. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is fantasy. Today is in our hand. If we don't pay attention to what we have, we are losing what we have. If we are in the past, we are living with dead things.
Each day get up and say, “I am awake, I am alive, and I am going to make the best of the day.” It is easy to handle that day. At the end of the day review how the day has gone. Review the positive things and the positive people of the day, and also the negative things, the old habits and negative interactions. The end of each day becomes an accounting of the day. In that way the journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step. To experience eternity, we experience one day at a time, whether old or young, wise or otherwise.
Start out the day with a smile, a feeling of being alive. Look out, look up and say, “I am blessed, I have good eyes, good ears, good nose, good mouth, good hands, everything". See the gifts you have. When you know your gifts, you will feel rich. Many people with lots of money are full of disease, or have lots of problems, and are unhappy. You have everything now. Yet sometimes we are not happy because we don't know what wealth we have. People who do know, live day by day, and are rich.
In Pittsburgh a man, Andrew Carnegie, made a point on Saturday mornings to spend one hour with young people. There was a young man, exhausted and depressed who planned to commit suicide. But first he went to see Andrew Carnegie on a Saturday morning. He told him, “There is nothing you can do for me. I've tried to find a job and can't find one. I am going to commit suicide.” Andrew Carnegie gave him a check for $25,000.00. The man said, "$25,000.00? What for?” Andrew Carnegie said, “Yes, for the eyes you will donate to someone when you die.” Then he gave him another check for another $25,000.00, for his two kidneys. The young man then realized what he
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