Powers of the Heart and Mind: Find Your True Strength

Seoul, South Korea

Strength. It is time for you to find ways to make yourself stronger. Persevere through the challenges that life throws at you, and not only never give up, but also stand tall as the victor. As it was once said, by someone not so long ago, when we enter into the adult world, many do not care how hard we tried, they care about the success that we have to show.

However, how hard you try is of importance to you alone.

Try your best. Put your heart and energy into all each task that is given to you, and compose a strategy for success. There is a parable: the man from the East met the man from the West. The man from the East asked, "How do you learn the truth?" The man from the West replied, "I open my eyes. How do you learn the truth?" The man from the East replied, "I close my eyes."

One is about education, knowledge, rational thinking, logic, and lessons from life.
The other is about self-reflection, intrapersonal understanding, and being aware of more than the material world.

To find strength in life, you can use both. To achieve success, learn as much as you can. Study your subject of choice at an intense rate. Use knowledge and facts as tools for you to build a strategy for achievement.

At the same time, always be aware of how your actions can affect other humans and the Earth on which we live. Be honest with yourself, and you will find reasons to be honest with everyone. For it through the honesty of self-reflection that allows us to recognize the origin of problems that have held us back from achieving success.

One must always use the heart, and one must always use the mind at the same time. These two should never be separated, for if they are, the heart will become nothing more than an organ that is used to pump blood, and the mind will be forgotten, and only the brain shall remain.

Use your cleverness for achievement. Use your knowledge to create a foundation. Use your ideas to find creative ways to make positive change in the world, for when the heart and the mind are working together, one will want to help one another. One will recognize that true strength does not come from physicality or from cleverness and manipulation, but from a united humanity all working together for the same cause of loving and protecting the planet Earth and the life among us.