Our true potentialby wisdom

A beggar was sitting on the road side for thirty years. A stranger was passing by. The beggar asked him for some money. The stranger responded: I have nothing with me. But I notice that you are sitting on a box. What is inside this box? The beggar responded: I don’t know. There is no use of knowing it either. There is nothing in it.

The stranger said: Open this box and see if there is any thing. When the beggar opened the lid of the box, he found gold in it!

We all have gold inside us, yet, we are not aware about it. Another important point which I found in the book was the strong verdict that a person is himself or herself creator of pain or pleasure. One need to live in present without fear of past or any tension of the future. This is the path to the enlightenment and what do we mean by enlightenment?

Enlightenment has been defined as: The absence of all sufferings!

The above is from Eckhart Tolle’s book: The Power of Now!