Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Life is a Journey from I to We

Most of us have known a person or two in our lives who almost always seem content and at peace. People are attracted to them like magnets and their lives are rich and full. Good things seem to effortlessly come their way. Yet oddly, such people generally have little regard for their own welfare and continuously put others first. How do we explain this paradox?



Posted all around the ashram of the great Indian saint, Sai Baba, are little signs displaying spiritual aphorisms, reminding visitors of the reason they are there. One sign reads ‘Life is a Journey from I to We.’ That message impressed me like no other, to the extent that I still remember it 20 years later. Why? Because it reflects a universal truth of all religions: the path t View the rest of this article


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