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• August 2021 LP

TEACHING STORY

Seeing with the inner eye 
Once there lived a girl who was always confused as to what to make of her life and was very frivolous with her career choices. She would take up a course or a job, one after another, and quickly drop it, only to move on to the next one. Sometimes she would get influenced by what others were doing and how it looked more endearing and promising on the outside; however, she would discover later that she had no interest in pursuing it at all. Other times, she would try doing something she didn’t have any skills or talent for and end up being a failure. Finally, she learnt somewhere that the only way to be creative is to express yourself in the best possible way, and this can happen only if you know yourself well. And so, she started her journey of self-knowing. One day, in an ordinary moment, she discovered that cooking and baking were her ultimate joys. The strange thing was that while she had been looking outside to know what her heart really wanted, it was right there in front of her. As soon as she discovered this, she started taking training in baking and soon began a small home bakery. Gradually, she became one of the most popular bakers in her locality. She even automated her business and took it online. As she expanded her brand, she started living the best days of her life. Sometimes, the most important things, lessons, and epiphanies are floating right before our eyes, but since they exist in the mundane, they get generally overlooked. They are mostly situated inside our hearts. All we need to do is turn inwards and look at the heart to know what our true desires and callings are. This is the secret of a happy life. 
—Navni Chawla

THIS, I KNOW
Neale Donald Walsch

• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions—fear or love.
• There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience the fullest glory.
• If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.
• Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the five levels of truth-telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.
• The way to move out of judgment is to move into gratitude.
• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal at any moment.
• Enlightenment is in the understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.
• Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.

INSPIRATION

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

~Rudyard Kipling  

JUST FOR LAUGHS
Boredom can kill
Once a lazy boy, who procrastinated a lot, shared with his friend that he was just done with life and it would be better if he died soon. His friend asked him if he were to pick from the many options, then how would he like to die? To this, the lazy boy replied, “I think I’d like to die of boredom.”