This week in my newsletter The Perennial Nomad: For Those Who Wander with Intent I share a profound lesson I learned from a group of beggar children in India:

I have told this story before and I’m sure I will tell it again, because it involves one of the most profound and unexpected experiences of my life. You can read about it in greater depth in my memoir World Without Pain: The Story of a Search, but for now a more succinct version will suffice.

The motivation to retell it comes from a prompt I received: Write about a time a child taught you about, or reminded you of, something important in life. As a father of five wonderful, intelligent, and dynamic sons, I could fill volumes with lessons I have learned from being a parent, but this incident I’m about to relate involves strangers: children I had never met before and will never see again.

It happened on the epic journey I made from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. to Goa, India.

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