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And it is better to be poor and have an appetite than to be rich and have no appetite. What are you going to do with all your gold, all your silver, all your dollars? You cannot eat them.
You have everything, but the appetite has disappeared for which you have been struggling all along. You succeeded -- and I have said again and again that nothing fails like success. You have reached a place that you wanted to reach, but you were not aware of the by-products. You have millions of dollars, but you cannot sleep.
When Alexander was in India he met a naked saint in the desert.
He declared: "I am Alexander the Great!"
The saint said, "You cannot be."
He said, "What nonsense! I am saying it myself, and you can see my armies all over the place."
He said, "I see your armies, but one who calls himself `The Great' has not yet reached to greatness, because greatness makes people humble, as it is such a failure, an utter failure."
Alexander was a disciple of Aristotle and he was trained by him in fine logic. He could not listen to all this mystic garbage. He said, "I don't believe all these things. I have conquered the whole world."
The naked man said, "If in this desert you are thirsty, and I offer you a glass of water, how much would you be able to give me for it? -- and for miles there is no water."
Alexander said, "I would give you half of my kingdom."
The saint said, "No, I will not sell it for half of the kingdom. Either you can have the kingdom or you can have the glass of water. And you are thirsty and you are dying and there are no possibilities of finding water anywhere -- what will you do?"
He said, "Then naturally, I will give you the whole kingdom."
The saint laughed; he said, "So that is the price of your whole kingdom -- just a glass of water! And you think you have conquered the whole world? From today start saying you have conquered a whole glass of water."
When man reaches to the cherished goals, then he becomes aware that there are many things around them. For example, for your whole life you try to earn money, thinking that one day when you have it, you will live a
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