Wahiduddin Khan's Blog, page 35

Formula for Strength

Every tree is known to be a composite of two parts, half of it being below the surface of the earth, and the other half standing up in the air. This is the formula for strength. Strength can only be achieved from the inside and not from the outside. If you want to live as a strong person, you have to develop a firm base, and then you will be able to live as a worthy member of your society.

Adjustment

The right approach is to inculcate the mentality of adjustment, for it is this quality of adjustment which makes a person capable of surviving with all kinds of people.

Peace without peace

Peace in this world is only for one who can be content in its absence.

Live like a magnet

It is irrelevant whether the world around you is favourable to you or not; after all, it is you who decides what kind of things you need from the external world. Live like a magnet. If there is a jungle of different things around you, your magnetic nature will choose the favourable and pass over the unfavourable.

Preventing Enmity

Enmity persists only when there is a permanent provocation. Where there is no provocation, enmity loses its base

Give and Take

This world runs on the principle of give and take. Here no value is placed on grievances, protests and demands. The simple rule observed by this world is receiving and giving in equal measure

Brainstorming

According to psychological studies, when there is a shocking experience, there is a storm in the human brain. This brainstorm activates the dormant cells of the mind, and the result is that one becomes capable of doing what one could not have accomplished in a normal situation.

Maturity

Art of rejection is easy, but only a great mind can accept. Acceptance is a phenomenon of maturity.

It is all but temporary

Optimism means knowing that one will eventually be rescued :that the waiting period will only be temporary in nature. The only thing that can create a serious problem for you is to lose your patience or to lose your hope or to forget that the situation is temporary and not permanent.

Futile Protests

If your building is weak, you cannot prevent it from being washed away by the flood, however many protestations to the contrary you may make.