Keys
to successful living
Part
1
Everyone
wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have
to go out and search for those keys, or do we have begun to examine life
without; internal and external life—and we can see that these aspects are of
equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from
civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we
cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions,
and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important
as life in the internal world. Even one who has renounced the world has to
understand the word relationship properly, because life itself is actually
relationship. The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to
the mind. The bodies, breathe, senses, and mind all function together as a
unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and
being requires an understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and
the relationships within oneself.
All
human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those
potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who
are not happy externally; those who are not happy internally can never be happy
externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make other
happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love other.
