Daily Wisdom Motivational Podcast

What is the opposite of a dream? Most people call it a nightmare.

It's interesting but in dreams, paradoxes actually unite. They become together. You can have opposites; you can have a ball fit into a box and at the same time that box, can be inside the ball. That's what dreams are. Now, in the opposite of a dream, a nightmare as most people call it, somethings maybe scary. An interesting concept is that any scary dream or nightmare, one wakes up right before the worst happens. Have you ever realized that? For instance, someone's running behind you but just when that person is about to catch you, you wake up. Why is that? How is that possible?

The reason is that you are the one running. You are letting that person run after you, and therefore, you won't allow the other to catch you. That's what dreams are, and so with nightmares: the ability to think of things which are above and beyond your conscious level but not so far that you're not able to control it. Therefore, right before you wake up, you actually now stop the dream even though this was at its peak, at its worst.

Have you ever thought about the difference between light and life? When light is turned on in a dark room there are no new objects that are added to this room. Light allows you to appreciate that which existed there before that's what it does. Nothing was added. The same thing is with life. When a corpse is given life, the only difference is breathing and then it starts living but otherwise, it's the same thing.

To be happy, you have a clear conscious or you will kill your conscious, it's up to you. You can decide what you want to do with that. For instance, a farmer who plants in the spring and then a storm comes and takes it all away yet he goes back the next spring and he plants all over again, he doesn't pay attention to the past. He knows what he can do.

I'm sure you recall often when your parents or teachers, or people who raised you, often said to you, "You have to be responsible. Be a responsible person. Responsible for your actions and responsible for everything around you."

The truth is, that may be a misnomer. Responsible is important, of course, but here is what's more important, being accountable. Responsible is good because you become an adult. Accountable means that you realize what you're doing and you're doing it because there is going to be in your life, and in the rest of the world, some accountability as to what you've done to this world. Now, the reason why you want to be accountable for what you've done, it's because you are capable of doing it all.

People ask, "How do you have a great relationship with your spouse? With a partner, with your children, with your parents, with a colleague at work, or a neighbor? With acquaintances or friends, or people that you're sitting next to on a flight? How do you become that person that makes others feel better than they are, so when they walk away they say, ‘This was an amazing meeting?'"

That's the question.

Some people say it's by obliteration. Obliteration means you don't exist; you are nobody and whatever you do, consider yourself smaller than anybody else. Obliterate yourself, your feelings, your wants, your needs.

The word love can be used in such a wide variety of situations, we often lose its concept. Children are the best ones to express what love means. When you look at a child, a small baby doesn't ask for anything. The small baby is just there and they look at you with a warm, kind, deep sigh. They have just slept and if they have been fed, and finished their needs, they are just looking at you. What they say is, "Love me. Love me for who I am, love me for what I bring to the world. Don't look at some of the things which make me sometime not the person you want me to be. Don't think of me as a difficult portion of your life. Don't look at me as an opportunity to do things that are not supposed to be done. Love me for who I am and let me love you the way I want you to love me."

It is told that when iron was created in the world; wherever there was wood, the trees got worried. They thought, "Goodness, now that the iron is here, we can be cut down. We no longer are the majestic vegetation and growth and trunks that's we thought we were. We could be destroyed because of iron."

This is not truth because in order for the iron to cut the tree, it must have a handle. The handle itself becomes the axe, and it's with that handle which holds on to the part of the iron which can cut the tree. Without the handle, the axe serves no purpose; it can't harm anyone.

What is a bad habit? A bad habit is something that you should not be doing, but for whatever reason you are stuck doing it.

This is not something you have to keep or something you must have with you all the time. You can change it, but because it is a habit you have become used to it.

An ambassador is somebody who represents an entity, an organization, or a country, an idea, or even a thought, a philosophy. This is what each human being is: an ambassador. This is how you have to think of yourself. You and I, and every one of us in this world are ambassadors. We were sent here on Earth with a mission. Not all of us have the same mission and not all of us have the same opportunities but we all have a mission and that mission can be accomplished to the best of our abilities if we want.

If you see me at times doing things which are improper, lift me up. Such a beautiful concept. If you hear things that I say which are incorrect or harmful lift me up. If there is something that I have done to you or someone you know which was not right, lift me up. Lift me up on top of the world, and show me, help me, guide me. When you lift up others, you rise.

Here is the key; by lifting someone else up you, are changing the world. What good is it to bring them down? Admonish them? Tell them how terrible they are? What does it accomplish?

Whether you have a successful life or not, why not share what you have?

Now you may say, “How can I share what I don’t have?”

We all have something we can share.