Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Interpretation
Identify your passions and skills to shape your life purpose.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in defining one's life direction. Instead of confining oneself to a job title, it encourages individuals to recognize their unique talents and contributions to the world, which can lead to a more fulfilling and authentic life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career development.
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.
You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!
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