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Terri Marie: Well, that was a very interesting and insightful
answer as always, John. And I’m always happy to hear what you
have to say about the questions that — I’m thinking and I’m
hoping other people are thinking. That brings me to another
question. There’s been some talk about and people are looking
are looking for a purpose in life. But some say that there is
no purpose in life. We create our purpose. What do you
believe about that?
John Harricharan: It’s similar to when people ask me “What is
the meaning of life? and I say life doesn’t have any meaning
and they are shocked — absolutely shocked. Because everyone
thinks that life has meaning. No, life has no meaning. We
bring meaning to life. Life has no purpose except to live it
as brilliantly as possible. We bring purpose to life.
It’s like having a bunch of an artist with a bunch of paint.
He has his paint brushes and has little things of paint. And
there is a big canvas in front of him, and he sits back and he
looks at the brush or the brushes. And he looks at his little
containers of paint. And he looks at the canvas and he says,
“What is the meaning of this canvas? What is the meaning of
the paint? They really by themselves have no special meaning.
But as he takes his brush, he puts it into the paint and he
starts painting on the canvas, out comes a beautiful picture.
There could be a painting of the Mona Lisa or any of the great
artists could have produced that.
The meaning is in the thing produced and what we bring to it.
The artist brought an invisible part of himself, which flowed
through the paint, through the canvas. And there is something,
which although it’s a painting would influence hundreds and
thousands of people forever more. So, so it is with a purpose.
We don’t run around looking for a purpose in life, because the
more we do so the more we get it mixed up like the little fish
in the ocean. Can you imagine the bunch of little fishes
around the big mummy and daddy fish saying, “Can we go find
some water, numerous water? We have heard of this great place
where there is so much water. We’d like to go. Mummy and
daddy fish, can you take us little baby fishes along the search
for this great adventure for water?”
It is as almost as ridiculous as that, because our purpose is
all around us. The very fact that we are here, the very fact
that we breathe, we exist, that is purpose. And I think just
to simplify it and put a little laughter into it . The purpose
of life is to live it as brilliantly as beautifully as
possible.
Terri Marie: And you just gave a brilliant answer to the
question, John. Thanks once again. And I loved the little
fishy story. All right. You have got into me some superheroes
in life and become good friends with them, for instance,
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Foster Hibbard. What did you learn
from maybe Elizabeth or Foster that you’d like to share with
the listeners?
John Harricharan: Another question, Terri Marie, which has
been asked to me a lot of times. People have said, “Oh, my
goodness. You must have learnt so much from all these great
people in there.” Absolutely right, except it’s not a one-way
street. And I would like to rephrase that and said, “We all
learn from each other.” And some of the things I learned were
very interesting.
I think what are the most important things I learned from the
great people I have met is how human they are, how very much
like you and me and everyone else. They are subject to the
same forces and same laws of the universe as everyone else.
They hurt. They laugh. They cry. They sing. They play.
They are happy. They are sad. But there was something else in
them that I did not find in the ordinary person.
They had decided to serve, to help others, to love
unconditionally, to give up what they think would bring them a
lot of good and do things in the service of others. Foster
Hibbard was certainly such a person. He would serve people.
He would help people. And in doing so he precipitated the
tremendously powerful law — The Law of Giving and Receiving,
because it says, in as much as you give so shall you receive.
You cannot, just as it’s true that you cannot receive without
giving, you cannot give without receiving=85.
And so that made Foster Hibbard a fortune. It put him in touch
with some of the other great people. And do you know he went to
school, his — one of his schooling or schools, some of his
classmates were people or schoolmates were people like Jack
Lemmon, some of the Rockefellers, the first President, Bush,
and others. That’s the type of people he was led to. And he
was a very ordinary person, but yet extraordinary in what he
had done with his spirit.
So it was with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Elizabeth was my friend
for many, many years until she passed on a few years ago. She
was a wonderful, wonderful lady who brought so much
understanding in this world to the thought of dying; the way
people treat it, dying people. And she brought dignity to that
and made a total change to the entire hospice situation at the
United States. So much so, that her book, the seminal “On
Death and Dying” has become required reading of almost all good
medical schools on earth, if you will. And so, Elisabeth and I
sort of met many years ago through another friend of mine, Brad
Steiger, who is an author of over a 150 books.
And in a, kind of, a network with these people we find — we
found is that we liked one another, that we loved the same life
of firmers and disliked the same life destroyers that we wanted
to help people, but not by telling, actually by showing and
doing. Because some of the people I have met and know and this
includes people like — you mentioned before Foster Hibbard, who
was an associate of the great Dr. Napoleon Hill, people like Dr.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Deepak Chopra and many others, Dan
Millman.
They all seem to have this desire to look into the future and
bring some joy to the current situation in the life of human
beings. And that’s what I learned from them. They are just
like I am. I am just like they are. And that they don’t teach
and I don’t teach. We all learn. We generally meet people for
one of two reasons and maybe a combination, which is even
better.
One is to teach them something the other is to learn something
from them, or the better of the two, the combination of the
two, which is to learn and teach. Somewhere in there is an
answer to what you ask me.
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