Successful Living

       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 research for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into aspects—life within and life without; internal life 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 the 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 preform 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 world relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and the 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 relationship 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 internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never love others.

If we are not happy, how can we be successful in life?