On Moksha
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2021 3:52 pm
In 1968, a young executive at a small insurance company wrote a book to help motivate and inspire his sales team. He told the fictional story of an extremely successful merchant in the age of the Roman Empire. The key to his success was living by ten habits written on ten secret leather scrolls that had been entrusted to him in his youth.
The book is “The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino. The author once talked about the abundance of mail he received from people who had their lives improved by this book, regardless of whether they were in sales. He said that according to his fan mail, “The Scroll Marked VII” is the one that had the greatest impact.
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The book is “The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino. The author once talked about the abundance of mail he received from people who had their lives improved by this book, regardless of whether they were in sales. He said that according to his fan mail, “The Scroll Marked VII” is the one that had the greatest impact.
A few lines from this chapter read:
Moksha is okay by me.I will laugh at the world…
I will smile and my digestion will improve; I will chuckle and my burdens will be lightened; I will laugh and my life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life and now it is mine.
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously. Never will I fall into this trap of the mind.…
I will laugh at the world. And with my laughter all things will be reduced to their proper size. I will laugh at my failures and they will vanish in clouds of new dreams; I will laugh at my successes and they will shrink to their true value. I will laugh at evil and it will die untasted; I will laugh at goodness and it will thrive and abound….
Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. In this matter I will always remain as a child, for only as a child am I given the ability to look up to others; and so long as I look up to another I will never grow too long for my cot.”