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Leading A Spiritual Life

will teach you a new lesson. Each time you cogitate, you
will be able to discover a new idea.
Discovery is food for the mind, just as physical items
are food for the body. When we take lunch or breakfast,
we take physical food and thus we energize our bodies.
Similar inputs are required for intellectual health. We
must be so conscious about this fact that we should
derive something new from every experience. It all
depends upon our intellectual awakening. If you are an
intellectually awakened person, then it is quite possible
to extract new things from your observations every day
and night.

Without this daily discovery, your mind will become
so dull that you will be just like an animal. Ostensibly,
you will appear to be a human being, but in actual fact
you will be something of a lesser being altogether.
All the animals need physical food, but they have no
need of intellectual food, whereas it is in the nature of
man to need intellectual stimuli. And for this purpose,
he must discover new things every day. This habit makes
one a creative person. And only a creative person can
do great things in life.

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