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Sensations
as such, however strong, do not cause suffering.
It is the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas,
addicted to thinking: 'I am this,' 'I am that,' that fears
loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated.
- Nisargadatta
Each of us has a person within ourselves who needs
to be identified and discovered. It is this person who will
make you feel that you are born to achieve and lead a meaningful
life. When you feel tired and bored of what you are at present,
you need to spot the person hidden within you and cherish your
life by adopting the hidden person's traits and qualities.
To identify the person within you, you must first analyse and
find out what you are not.
"All the good we have rests in the mind,
By whose proportions only we redeem
Our thoughts from our confusion, and do find
The measure of ourselves and of our powers."
- Samuel Daniel
When you have found out what you are not, you have
the answer for what you are. And when you struggle to get
an answer for ‘who am I in reality’, you will find a different
person who is hidden within you, a person whom you adore.
Find out everything about what you want to be, the special person
who is within you, in appearance, thoughts, likings, feelings,
attitudes and ambitions. Never perceive these abstract feelings,
just discover them and give a shape to your thoughts.
Never lose your real self and act like someone else, because this
will disturb your integrity of character.
You are not trying to become someone... you are transforming yourself
into the person you have discovered within yourself.
In times of loneliness when there is no one beside you to comfort
you, there is a spark of inspiration that comes from within you,
you receive support from your heart and fight the loneliness.
When you are struggling and there is no other weapon, your strengths
multiply and you feel that you can win .... your confidence is
invoked by your inner self.
When you are all alone and search for a meaning in life, you can
discover a new path which you have not taken and which needs a
different personality.
Sometimes your friends and family point out the special quality
in you, which you were not familiar with
The sooner you realise the person within you, the quicker you
will reach the end of your search for a meaningful life and realize
that you are a new person. You have a new way to live, a life
serene and wonderful.
And remember "You are always above anything you imagine yourself
to be".
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you did not do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
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