Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the Five Am Club, and I'm delighted to welcome you to this

mastery session. Well, yesterday I was given a very precious gift and it's a copy of one of my favorite books of all time, the Prophet by Khalil Jabran.

And the gift is one of the first editions.

In the first printing or the first edition 2,000 copies of this phenomenal book were printed.

And so yesterday I was given one of the 2,000 copies of the23 first edition.

And what I thought I'd do, hopefully to be an instrument of service to you,

is read one of my favorite passages that has got me through some very difficult times in life.

We all have times on the mountaintop,

and we all have times in the valley of confusion and heartbreak.

And when I go through the winters of my lifetime I resist them a lot less now because I've

realized a rich life has the winters and the summers and the autumns in the spring.

But when I've gone through times of confusion and difficulty,

the chapter or the passage I'm going to read to you

has really reminded me about some noble truths of life itself.

So it's from page 35 as I say and just I'll read a little bit.

Then a woman said, speak to us of joy and sorrow.

And he answered,

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

The self-same well, from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be the deeper that sorrow carves in your being the more joy

you can contain is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's

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