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Nipun Mehta shares personal insight gained from a 3-month long walking pilgrimage through India.
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.” –Antonio Machado
[Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation: 2012’s Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania was an unconventional choice for an Ivy League school. To address their newly-minted graduates, aspiring to dazzling careers, they picked a man who has never in his adult life, applied for a job. A man who hasn’t worked for pay in nearly a decade, and whose self-stated mission is simply “to bring smiles to the world and stillness to my heart”. This off-the-radar speaker launched his address with a startling piece of advice.
Original article by Nipun Mehta, posted in the Daily Good, May 14, 2012
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