Access The Greatest Power -- Life Beyond Why: Ecclesiastes/Kohelet # 23

The Lion and the Ox: Two Modes of Jewish Leadership

The rules of success are universal.

The marshmallow test, which displays one's ability to delay gratification, may predict a future doctor who can endure med school, who saves lives for a living, or the drug lord, who patiently ascends to power, and who may kill to earn his bread.

There seem to be many paths to success. The key is simply to choose one.

In the face of the prosperous wicked, why oh why should we choose the path of good?

Further, how can we have confidence that what we see as good is indeed good?

Enter King David. In his death he taught that the "live dog is better than the dead lion."

There may be many roads to success, and there are various ways to assert oneself, but there's only one source of life.

You may have sculpted your body, achieved brilliance in your field, and developed an exquisitely beautiful personality, but did you create your own life?!

By focusing excessively on our own accomplishments, on our personal power, we exhaust ourselves. We move further and further from the simple, raw power of life itself.