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You want a challenge in your life? You want to do something really challenging?

Forget about triathlons. Try this. Try to be conscious.

It takes exceptional courage to be conscious in your life. To be aware of what is happening. To be aware of what is going on.

- Prem Rawat

When I say “heart,” when heart is talked about, heart is the place in a human being where the goodness in you resides, where the clarity lives, where your God lives with you, where understanding lives, where the peace lives in you—that’s the heart. The place of light, not darkness

– Prem Rawat

You have a mind and you have a heart; you’re balanced. If you learn how to use both of them equally, not only will you be in peace, but you will prosper. Most people only know how to use one. The heart, they don’t understand.

I say “the heart,” and people go, “What are you talking about? What is this thing called the heart?” But let me tell you what it is. The heart is the place where the courage resides, the courage to move on, to go forward, to fulfill who you really are.

The heart is the place where your truest wisdom resides. The heart is the place where you will find your passion. The heart is the place where you will find your compassion. The heart is the place where you will find the quest, the thirst for being fulfilled.

All that is good in you—not from the perspective of the world, but that is good in you from the perspective of a human being—is the place where all these beautiful things reside. And that is the place referred to conveniently as being the most important, and thus called “the heart.”

That’s what a heart is. The courage. The courage to seek clarity in the midst of confusion. When everything is going wrong, the courage to say, “No! I want clarity; I want to be fulfilled.”

Have you experienced this courage? Have you felt this courage? Have you understood this courage? It’s your power to thrive in this world—to thrive, to shine, to be.

You don’t need fear; you need strength. And the strength that I am talking about is inside of you. Knowledge of the self, of you! So you can understand, so you can see, so you can feel, so you know.

To welcome every single day like you will not get another one—and that’s when every day starts to become a gift.

– Prem Rawat

People say “now,” right? I have said “now.” And one day I was thinking about “now.” Now is the most elusive thing there is. Because by the time I say “now,” it’s not now anymore. So, by the time I finish saying “now,” now is gone.

Here is one for you. If you don’t understand the meaning of “one,” what is the point in going on to two? After all, “two” is just two ones.

If you don’t understand the meaning of “now,” what is the point in trying to understand the meaning of “tomorrow”? Because you would be pleasantly surprised that tomorrow too will be just full of a bunch of nows—and none different. You need in your life to know.

– Prem Rawat

In the map of life, have you got that peg squarely pegged that says, “You are here”? Because if you don’t, the map doesn’t mean anything. It’s pretty—but that’s all it is!

Everything in that map only makes sense when that pin is clearly there, that says “You are here.” That is the importance of knowing where I am. But having the map and not knowing where I am on that map, renders the map useless.

So, everything in you do in your life, literally has been to create the map: “Here is my son; here is my daughter; here is my house; here is my job; here is my uncle; here is my nephew; here is my this; here is my house; here is my work; here is, you know, where I live; this is what I do; this is my town; this is my city.”

You’ve been working to create your map—and that’s what you try to maintain! But if in this map, you do not know where you are? Useless!

– Prem Rawat

A lot of people want to be thankful. They want to have gratitude. But there is a problem. You cannot have gratitude without gratification. You have to have gratification. And you know what one of the meanings of gratification is?

One of the meanings: to be fulfilled. Fulfillment. If you want of feel gratitude in your life,  great! How do people express that? Smile. Have a nice day! I wish it was that simple. Somebody says, “Have a nice day” And you go, “Oh! Great now I’m going to have a nice day.”

See, real gratification is what you need. And when there is real gratification, gratitude is automatic.

People ask me what should we be thankful for? It’s a trick question; it cannot be answered. If you don’t have gratification, trying to pretend that you are grateful will never happen. But when you have gratification, when you have that fulfillment in your life, gratitude is automatic. You don’t have to work on it. That just happens.

- Prem Rawat