The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

A very good book about how to live life. This book tells a story of a millionaire lawyer, who sold his everything even his favourite Ferrari and went to Kashmir to the saints. There he learnt a story which is as follows :

You are sitting in the middle of a magnificent, lush, green garden. This garden is filled with the most spectacular flowers you have ever seen. The environment is supremely tranquil and silent. Savour the sensual delights of this garden and feel as if you have all the time in the world to enjoy this natural oasis. As you look around you see that in the centre of the magical garden stands a towering, red lighthouse, six stories high. Suddenly, the silence of the garden is disturbed by a loud creaking as the door at the base of the lighthouse opens. Out stumbles a nine-foot-tall, nine-hundred-pound Japenese sumo wrestler who casually wanders into the centre of the garden. As this sumo wrestler starts to move around the garden, he finds a shiny gold stopwatch which someone had left behind many years earlier. He slips it on and falls to the ground with an enormous thud. The sumo wrestler is rendered unconscious and lies there, silent and still. Just when you think he has taken his last breath, the wrestler awakens, perhaps stirred by the fragrance of some fresh yellow roses blooming nearby. Energized, the wrestler jumps swiftly to his feet and intuitively looks to his left. He is startled by what he sees. Through the bushes at the very edge of the garden, he observes a long winding path covered by millions of sparkling diamonds. Something seems to instruct the wrestler to take the path, and to his credit, he does. This path leads him down the road of everlasting joy and eternal bliss. 

1. The Magnificent Garden:         Master your Mind

2. The Towering Lighthouse:       Follow your Purpose

3. The Sumo Wrestler:                 Practice Kizen

4. The Pink Wire Cable:               Live with Discipline

5. The Golden Stopwatch:           Respect Your Time

6. The Fragrant Roses:                Selflessly Serve Others

7. The Path of Diamonds:           Embrace the Present

So many adorable meaningful quotes are there in this book, but only a few I will share here.

- For what lies behind you and what lies in front of you matters little when compared to what lies within you.

- Life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.

- Never put off the things that are important for your well-being and satisfaction to a later time.

- Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

- A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

- Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

- Living a rich life with accomplishment and contribution did not have to come through the sacrifice of peace of mind.

- One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle - and a mystery.

- You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

- The ten-minute period before you sleep and wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind.

- We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

- No man is free who is not a master of himself.

- Those who cups are always empty will always move to higher levels of achievement and fulfilment.

- A day without laugher or a day without love was a day without life.