Truth

Can it be so simple?

People travel to Kathmandu to find the truth – why?

People read every book out there to find the truth – why?

People escape through movie drugs and other things to leave behind lives that for thousands of years people could only have possibly dreamed of and even then they could never have imagined the quality of life we have today – compare, the average person would die at 40 with so much difficulty just to survive, add the fact they lived under tyrannical regimes, were basically slaves of the king etc. and now we have freedom to boot!!

And that’s the simple truth, it has taken us thousands of years, quite literally, for us to enjoy the quality of life we have today, battle after battle, against illness, against tyranny, against ignorance, has been fought and won, and now we are in the promised land, for the promised land is not a land, it is a mindset, a mindset that you are entitled to be free, entitled to grow, entitled to have the dignity of a warm home and a hot meal, and yet we, born into that entitlement, fail to appreciate its blessing!

When we speak to people who have suffered, come from hell, from communist Russia for example to America, they don’t complain, for they can appreciate the difference between the darkness and light!

Born into the light, all the blessings, we take for granted, we simply have no contrast, have no understanding, that happiness is not from more, for we have more than we have ever had in the history of mankind!

Rather, happiness is simply from appreciating what you already have!

As our Jewish sages advise us, the rich man can be you, if you are grateful for what you have!!