their lives without understanding what they really want. Even if they do know, they neither have the will nor the vision to create lives of their choice and so settle for whatever is easily attainable and within reach. At any given moment in life, if you go by past experience, or if you trust your mind to decide what is possible and what is not, then you will end up settling for mediocrity.

    We are always trying to create our life based on the reality that exists around us at that particular moment. Where we want to go tomorrow need not be connected with where we are right now.  Our highest goal in life need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our vision to the current situation, then we are once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what we think is possible. What is possible and what is not, is not bound to our thinking. But we do need to

have a vision with which to seek the highest aim.

    If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world around him, it is not beyond man's capacity to create it. It may happen in this lifetime, or it may take a couple of lifetimes, but what is wished for will definitely happen. This is because we will seek our vision every moment of our life. Then the highest things in life will fall at our feet. It is only because man is a bundle of confusions and spends most of his time seeking what he doesn't want that things he really wants never come to him. This lack of vision and will is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of reality.

    You must seek constantly that which you know to be the highest. It doesn't matter whether it is going to happen or not, simply living with the vision is an elevating experience and a joyous