The Best Advice Ever!

 We often find people sharing or asking about the best advice that they ever received. One may also ask older people about - what they think is the really important stuff in our lives? However, there is no universal answer to this. We all have unique life and each person who is asked this question will share the thoughts based on his / her experience. Even if we collated all these wise words we may still not be able to come to a common answer.

I often struggled with this one question - "What is that one thing knowing which one will know everything else". The answer is - "God! We are here for self- realization". For years I tried to distill my thoughts on this and I'll admit that although, something in me tells me that this is true, I haven't yet realized this. 

I also analyzed what great people have shared as an answer to the "best advice ever" question. I found that each person spoke about what they thought was important and they all shared some really valuable advice. And that is the point. We all experience life from a very personal and unique position. What's useful for you may not work for me. Or I may simply not believe it. Therefore, we have to figure out the answer ourselves. And that's how we evolve. Please note that the answers we get when we reflect on our life are very much useful and applicable for our future self. These learning will apply well and we will intrinsically believe in those ideas. That's because we have a context to our learning and hence a deeper realization of that mini truth.

In general though, we all want - love, health and happiness. (I want to add relationship too, i.e., we seek connections and a sense of belonging. Strangely, money is not in the top three. It is essential but doesn't make us happy. 

PS: I shared my personal notes on success & happiness  here.