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Finding the Purpose of Your Life

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“When people fundamentally transform their inner attitude, awaken to their life’s mission and bring forth their highest potential, they can change everything.” Dr Daisaku Ikeda You get a good job. Few years pass, you get bored. You get an even better job, few more years pass and you again get bored. After all what is that which can sustain our attention forever. Why does everything which seemed so exciting, gets boring after a while? Why does this restlessness not come to an end? Why, why, why? What is going to give me everlasting peace? When will I find something so exciting that I will wake up every morning eager to get up and immerse myself in work? When I loose in the rat race, i feel like a loser, when I win the rat race, I am still searching for something, questioning the permanence of my happiness? If losing and winning both give temporary happiness, what will give me that everlasting joy. The questions never seem to end and answers never seem close to us. There a...

The Joy of Life

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Some of you may have wondered how come I thought of this title for my Blog. I must thank my maternal uncle who had once gifted us this book called, “The Joy of Life” (Author Philip B. Kunhardt Jr, Published by Little Brown/Time Magazine.) It was a wonderful book with photographs on different aspects of life and their joys. It started with the joys of discovering everything as a baby and a child, the games of childhood, the love of teenage, the charms of a new marriage, the joys of parenting and so on.The chapters were named Beginnings, A Child's World, Growing Up, The Great Outdoors, Loving, Simple Pleasures, Our Animal Friends, Steppin' Out, Miracles and Generations. Taken from the pages of Life Magazine, the book has more than 250 stunning pictures which explore the wonders and joys of life. As the book's flap cover says, "In a chapter called 'Miracles' a number of hard to believe events are shown and the heart soars. This is a book about goodness and be...