A lot of things that you supposedly ought to learn are things you already know. And that is the biggest problem you are going to face, the biggest mental block.

“I’ve heard it. I know it.” And because you know it, you stop listening. The problem is you don’t make new mistakes. You make the old ones over and over again. The same things that prevented you from learning five years ago, are the same things that prevent you from learning today. There’s only one block to you coming up in this world, and that’s you! Being an expert is the problem. Because you think you know more than most people who come here, that becomes your biggest problem. Keeping an open mind is your biggest challenge.

What happens now? Where do you go from here? How do you rekindle the spirit in you so that it keeps burning? When the whole world is against you, that’s when you have to carry the biggest flame of all, the brightest flame of all. You’re each on your own individual journeys. You cannot feed the world, save the world, cure the world or carry the world on your back. It doesn’t need you. It has never needed you. Nothing is in your hands at the end of the day. The only thing you can do is improve yourself. That is the true purpose of why you’re here. If nothing has changed in you from the time you started, then the rest is of no relevance.

You are defined by what you do. Gandhi’s greatest journey was within him. If you focus on the journey within, you realize that the answers are within you. What is your purpose from here on? The whole purpose of The Sphere of Silence was to create the whole philosophy of asking, asking, asking. The challenges that we face - they will be different every day, in every part of the world. But the challenges that we face are meant for us. No one can face that challenge but you. So, “Why is it happening to me?” is not the question. The question should be, “Why have I not gotten past this?” If it’s happening to you again and again, then you’re repeating your mistakes. You need to make new mistakes. When you make new mistakes then you’ll have new problems. When you make the same mistakes, you’ll have the same problems. The mistakes that you can precisely pinpoint in someone else because you can see it so well, are the ones you make yourself.

Point is, it’s all you. It’s up to you, what you want to do. My love for networking is based on my love for people. To serve him is to serve those whom he created, whether they have two legs or four legs.

Everyday something new is being born all the time. Life is a cycle. If you can see things with the eyes of a child, the world is a wondrous place. That’s the essential difference between an Einstein, a Mandela, a Newton, a Stephen Hawking, and an Abdul Kalam. A child gets excited over everything. When you stop learning, your mind stagnates. You nullify. You stuntify. But if you talk to someone who is living on the edge, who is living life’s challenges, everyday is a new day for them. Sleep only gets in the way. For them it really does. Their mind never stops spinning. Yours hasn’t begun. You can choose to live like this - well 90% of the planet does. Or you can wake up.