Success and Failure

By Rohan and Mohan Perera, 25-Aug-2011 14:30:00

To fail at something means we have attempted to achieve something.
Why do we humans want to achieve anything?
In the world, success means, health, wealth and, most of all SELF-ESTEEM.
If we have pride, even poor health and meager wealth will keep our sanity.
Our aspirations should be to build our CHARACTER, not only our health and wealth most of us think and feel will give PRIDE to our being.
In seeking wealth we work hard, and in doing so some of us break the law of God, and the law of Man. In seeking health, most of us work out, and take remedies that often not do not work out, hoping to extend our earthly life; which comes with a shelf life–a best before and a use by date.
However, character building has nothing to do with health or wealth. It is to do with who we are. It does not have a best before or a use by date. It does not have a shelf life; which means there is no prop for our Spirit (character). It is free to wander in the boundless realm of the eternal, not be stuck on a transient world as if it is a part of it.
When we are born, we are 'nobodies'. Then the world tells us to become ‘somebody’. Usually that is to become a money maker; and how much money we make is how successful we are. But to a billion people, the greatest– the Emmanuel, did it on a carpenters salary. To another billion who is the– Enlightened One, gave up everything most who claim to be Buddhists work so hard for.
So as it is written, "Pride comes before destruction."
Success comes when we learn to humble ourselves. But we must gain first, so we can give up after. Matt 19:21
For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the PRIDE OF LIFE–is not of you, but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of his spirit abides forever. For it is the spirit that lives, and he who tries to save his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for his eternal spirit shall find it.
Ultimate success is complete Peace of Mind, and who succeeds achieves the absolute potential of the mind–the true Liberty of Life. Read More
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There is a purpose for everything under the sun.
A time to be born, and a time to die.
And in between: a time;
to cry and to laugh, to build and to break, to plant and to pluck, to kill and to heal,
to gather and to embrace, to hate and to love.
A time of war and a time of peace, a time to know each other.
A time of life.
To wonder what will come after life. To decide on a life everlasting.
A life without time. A life without peace. A life without love. A life without God. A life without a friend.
For what is willed, shall be hereafter.
The body will return to dust, and the spirit to it's timelessness.
Everything under the sun will be folded up, heaven and earth, space and time,
by the Eternal who unfolded them, but the spirit abides with the Eternal;
Who remains unseen and unknown by the faithless.
For the spirit of a man is his conscience,
and the spirit of God is the conscience of the Eternal;
and he who has faith in his conscience shall perceive like God,
and behold the Eternal.
Without Whom, all is vanity. Ecc.12
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Born in Sri Lanka to Dr. and Mrs. Lorenz Perera in 1956.  

Educated at  :  St. Thomas' Preparatory School, Bandarawella, Sri Lanka. 
North Eastern College, Sangre Grande, Trinidad.
 Duff Miller London Tutors, London, England. 
Hounslow College, London, England. (Science and Biochemistry). 
Surrey University, Surrey England. (Chemical Engineering).
 Lister and Fairfield Schools of nursing, Hertford and Bedford, England. (Psychiatric and General Nursing).

Drawing from professional and personal experience (Psychiatry & Bible Study), and having experienced life in four countries: Sri Lanka, Trinidad, United Kingdom, and Australia; Ro and Mo write on life, Consciousness / Awareness.

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