Meaningful life is touching lives of others

We keep meting so many people during our journey of life and some of these people touch our lives in more than one way. How do we touch people's lives really speaking in the real sense? It is done by identifying their needs, individual available assets and strengthening these assets to meet these needs. Only then can your impact be lasting and truly sustainable. Assets are available resources or advantage within individuals and group of people to truly empower them so they can be self sustainable. Assets include talent, time, resources, skills, knowledge etc.

Agree that the concept of making a true impact is to empower them to fish instead of just giving them fish. That's the only way they won't come back for more fish. We want to truly impact lives and humanity, multiplying and maximizing your impact? I can help you. However, the problem is just understanding what that means, really. Since this phrase is almost universally misunderstood, rarely does one see the connection between being authentic and making the world a better place by touching people's lives.

There’s two ways to interpret “be yourself” and the first is to assume that your self is some fixed thing that you are supposed to locate, and then you’re supposed to be loyal to that thing and like it is your ball and chain to haul around in life is a set of rules which bind your behavior and thinking, so that you’re never being something other than this fixed object that you discovered in your state of hyper-introspection or whatever.

And the second is to understand what happens when a human being takes ownership of the meaning that they make, and turns that light on creatively shining it in the mirror so they become a self-sustaining lamp of imagination and possibility, courage and vision and passion and all the other good stuff. “A lamp that makes its own oil” is a much more grounded way to understand “be yourself” than “a personality that I am stuck with.”

Therefore, if you get it, you light it up. If you light it up, you are it, and at the same time you draw on that light to make more. You go out into the world inspired and taut, sharing and creating and dancing because you can because that’s what you are, and the world and which was always your own creation anyway moves with you. Because you learned what it means to be yourself.

And what do you do when someone tries to "help" you? Are you open to the idea, for example, that your view of the people you're trying to help is condescending and ego-flattering to yourself? If I offer you that kind of help, are you going to flood me with gratitude for seeing the dark underbelly of your altruism?

Or do you want to be more "vocal and convincing". That's about you, it's not about them. More to the point, thinking about yourself and others in this way -- in which you've divided the relationship up between "the helper" and "the needy" is virtually guaranteed to prevent any real help from occurring. However if you stop putting yourself on a superiority pedestal, and just talk to people, what happens? You have differences with others, but your view isn't always superior. Listen to them. Appreciate them. Be related, instead of judgmental. Be a friend. Be yourself and stop thinking of yourself as the "counselor hero".

When we talk about these emotions they are the thoughts are activated as per our minds' previous stored impressions/Memories/Sanskara's from all our interactions with that particular person this life time and also from our previous life times. There are 3 types of emotions which the mind expresses. One is pleasant/happy/like emotions and the second one is unpleasant/unhappy/dislike emotions whereas third is neutral emotions. Now human mind as per Sanatan Dharma says the impression/memories/Sanskara's are not only stored from this life time and also from our past life times.

Moreover, our mind is reacting with the person/individual with the some composite of all previous interactions/impression/memories/Sanskaras in our past lives. If the person has been associated with pleasant emotions and they bring joy and happiness into our live. Our superficial/untrained mind thinks we have met them for a short time. One can train the mind to read all the memories recorded in the brain from this life time and previous life times like a video rerun. You can see that we have met in our previous lives and they have left memories. Like I do not know you from this life time but we are meeting in our minds.

If you are thinking that we have met then for a short time is true partially for truth is we have met them in our past lives. Of course you have to believe in rebirths. I do not have experience of doing it, I cannot say with conviction. Hope one day I can train my mind to read my mind/thoughts/impressions/Sanskara's.

The truth (Dharma) is when we meet people always make good associations (Karmas) of kindness,compassion, goodwill and true love. For these association in the future, this life time and in next life times will bring the same results positive emotions. On the contrary if our current association(karma) with people is ill will, hatred,anger so on then our future interactions will bear the same negative emotions/thoughts. Cheers!