Find Your Center Before You Draw Your Circles

A young man once asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe for advice about his future.

The Rebbe told him: stay in yeshivah for now. Study. Strengthen your character. Find your purpose.

The young man pressed back. Why this advice?

The Rebbe handed him a pencil. “Draw a perfect circle.”

He tried. He failed. “Impossible,” he said.

“What would you need?” the Rebbe asked.

“A compass.” The Rebbe gave him one. The circle came out flawless.

“And what made it possible?” “The compass had a center point,” the young man........

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