This is a book with a message - provides a way to live a purposeful life. An imagery is to help remember the central ideas:
"You are sitting in the middle of a magnificent, lush, green garden. This garden is filled with the most spectacular flowers you have ever seen. The environment is supremely tranquil and silent. Savor the sensual delights of this garden and feel as if you have all the time in the world to enjoy this natural oasis. As you look around you see that in the center of this magical garden stands a towering lighthouse, six stories high. Suddenly, the silence of the garden is disturbed by a loud creaking as the door at the base of the lighthouse opens. Out stumbles a nine-foot-tall, nine-hundred-pound Japanese sumo wrestler who casually wanders into the center of the garden. The Japanese sumo wrestler is almost totally naked. He has a pink wire cable covering his private parts.
As this sumo wrestler starts to move around the garden he finds a shiny gold stopwatch which someone had left behind many years earlier. He slips it on, and falls to the ground with an enormous thud. The sumo wrestler is rendered unconscious and lies there, silent and still. Just when you think, he has taken his last breath, the wrestler awakens, perhaps stirred by the fragrance of some fresh yellow roses blooming nearby. Energized, the wrestler jumps swiftly to his feet and intuitively looks to his left. He is startled by what he sees. Through the bushes at the very edge of the garden, he observes a long winding path covered by millions of sparkling diamonds. Something seems to instruct the wrestler to take the path, and to hos credit, he does. The path leads him down the road of everlasting joy and eternal bliss."
The various elements in this imagery hints at certain values in life. There is one particular idea which I disagree is: to compulsorily get up early in the morning. As per my understanding, sleep should be the priority and not its timing. If you sleep is complete, you feel refreshed and energised. Infact, I liked the concept of afternoon naps in which - an odd hour of a nap refreshes you so that you can concentrate well and perform your chosen task whole heartedly.
Overall, it is a fantastic book, completely worth reading it.
As this sumo wrestler starts to move around the garden he finds a shiny gold stopwatch which someone had left behind many years earlier. He slips it on, and falls to the ground with an enormous thud. The sumo wrestler is rendered unconscious and lies there, silent and still. Just when you think, he has taken his last breath, the wrestler awakens, perhaps stirred by the fragrance of some fresh yellow roses blooming nearby. Energized, the wrestler jumps swiftly to his feet and intuitively looks to his left. He is startled by what he sees. Through the bushes at the very edge of the garden, he observes a long winding path covered by millions of sparkling diamonds. Something seems to instruct the wrestler to take the path, and to hos credit, he does. The path leads him down the road of everlasting joy and eternal bliss."
The various elements in this imagery hints at certain values in life. There is one particular idea which I disagree is: to compulsorily get up early in the morning. As per my understanding, sleep should be the priority and not its timing. If you sleep is complete, you feel refreshed and energised. Infact, I liked the concept of afternoon naps in which - an odd hour of a nap refreshes you so that you can concentrate well and perform your chosen task whole heartedly.
Overall, it is a fantastic book, completely worth reading it.
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