Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead us are tiny matters to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the book, Search Inside Yourself, that someone who is very kind-hearted presented me as my birthday gift and at the same time, it inspired me to re-design my motto as; Search Inside Myself. I was brightened on my bright birthday by these two things; The book and my motto. Besides, wishes from my benign friends didn't fail to thrill me.

Sometimes, it is all-important to direct the searchlight, spotlight inwards as said by Mahatma Gandhi and search inside ourselves, I continue. We got to search what daily we are and what really we can do apart from driving this prized gift in habitual journey. We know about the distant stars and farthest sea. We know about the tiniest atom and itsy-bitsy cell. But the real question is, do we really know who we are and what we can do? If we happen to ask the aforementioned question to all, amplitude of us will have vague answers. Therefore, it is utmost importance for all of us to know who daily we are and what really we can do, for we are happily here to exercise this once-in-a-lifetime gifts.

Chade-Meng Tan, who is the Google's earliest engineer, has creatively distilled emotional intelligence into innumerable practical techniques that can be adopted by every one of us, based on his empirical and authentic experiences. As quoth by Ayn Rand, "We are born unarmed. Our mind is our only weapon," The book has got to do all with the mind for mind is the only weapon we own. For that reason, to tame and train our own miraculous mind must be a grand overarching strategy that all of us must deploy. Our mind can either be a constructive weapon or a destructive weapon based on our purpose. We are the drivers of the mind, we must captain it or it will enslave us.

The author mentions various and varieties methodologies of mindfulness training keeping mediation as the basis. It contains ins and outs of every method both theoretical and practical, through which the reader can easily implement in one's everyday life which can bring progress and betterment, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically, everyday, everywhere.

The book will guide you to the doors of true happiness, dogged determination, better creativity and productivity improving your life in many possibilities. It will nourish your brain, calm your mind, better your thoughts, sharpen your thinking, boost your both mental and physical energy, thus bringing quietude in your life and this is the ultimate type of life we all yearn for. Over and above, it will give you the greatest fulfillment and well being which will give birth to perfect exaltation.

Mine your mind of your own gold mine, through Search Inside Yourself.