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The Psychology of Enlightenment
child, your parent, or your friend. It makes no difference. Your love is the natural expression of feeling alive.
Let us start each day with this vibrant, loving feeling. At present, life is a burden to many of us because we are dependent on external things for our satisfaction. We struggle for wealth and success and when they are not forthcoming, we ask, “What is the meaning of life? Why do I live?" We exist, but we do not really experience life. These external achievements are nothing next to knowing what life is. Once we realize this fact, we will stop fabricating our own misery. We will no longer be the slaves of an unruly imagination which grasps after ephemeral things. Instead, we will be secure in the certain knowledge that we are happy and will remain so.
Why are we living? If we thrill with life, that is reason enough. People spend thousands of dollars to prolong their lives. Even in their final days, they are striving to live one hour longer. Yet how many days have already passed by them unnoticed? Hundreds of days have come and gone. So, it is time we begin paying attention to each day and reminding ourselves of the miracle that we are alive and breathing. The whole world is lying before us, and we are free to do what we want with our lives.
Wise people, who have educated their minds and become inwardly independent, are able to inspire others to live fully as they do. When you become truly alive, you will not have to find friends; they will seek you out no matter where you are. I hear from people I haven't seen for ten years or more. They write me from all over the world, including Russia, where people assume that there is no re
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