Navigating through unfamiliar landscapes is sometimes disorienting. People need to depend on their compass to help them find their way.

When trekking through deep mountains, sometimes people lose their way. It becomes difficult to figure out where they are or where they should go. Surrounded by trees and recurring landscapes, they become totally disoriented.

In their time of confusion, they depend on their compass to regain their bearings.

To successfully navigate through the wilderness, you need three points: true north, your current location and your final destination. Your compass aligns you to true north. This absolute point enables you to determine where you are and where you want to go. That is how you find your way home.

In life, everyone also gets lost sometimes, especially when bombarded by competing value systems, multiple messages, constant information and every-day affairs. Answers are sought for in many places, but without a clear orientation it is easy to lose the way.

Everyone needs a compass to reorient them. The moral compass is the conscience.

As is learned in nature, to navigate through the challenges and complexities of life, you need three points: absolute values and principles, where you are in life and where you want to go.

Your conscience shows you the true north in life. So when the conscience gets unsettled, it is important to listen carefully.  It will tell you if the choices and actions are aligned to righteous values and principles.

It will help you see where you are and what you need to do. It will show you your way home.

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Each height on the mountain supports a particular plant life. The higher you go, the plants are shorter but their roots are stronger.

In the mountains, each height has unique plant life. The base of the mountain is abundant with trees. But higher up, above the tree line, the landscape becomes barren.

Still, many plants and flowers thrive at those heights. The plants aren’t tall, but their root systems anchor them to the ground. Some plants even entwine their roots around rocks. Because of their hearty roots, they can survive the difficult environment.

When you’re young, it is important to grow deep roots like the plants at the top of the mountain. More than growing tall in your accomplishments, it’s important to deepen your conviction of your fundamental values.

Especially if you dream big, your roots—your conviction in who you are and your principles and values — are important. This is because dreams are like mountains. The bigger they are, the more challenges you have to overcome.

You need solid roots that ground and nourish you. They will give you the strength to fulfill your dreams.

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We are all born for a purpose, and it is our responsibility to live up to the purpose and expectation behind our life, reflected in our goals and aspirations.

The fundamental element of what makes humanity unique is that each and every one of us is qualitatively different. There are some who are smarter than others; there are some who can move worlds, while others can barely write sentences. Yet this qualitative difference does not mean that one is better than the other.

The genuine heart-to-heart relationship of trust and love is very important within a family because the great equalizer is true love. Although no one person is alike in a family, that diversity allows us to relate with and embrace many different characters.

How big or small, how broad or thin, what positions you hold or how much you accomplish—these are not the measure of a man’s worth. The measure of a man’s worth is the sincerity in which he lived in alignment to the principles of heaven and the values of true love.

Truth is truth, standard is standard, expectations are expectations. We are all born for a purpose, and it is our responsibility to live up to the purpose and expectation behind our life, reflected in our goals and aspirations. Family members should help each other to fulfill these goals.

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