Wahiduddin Khan's Blog, page 40

Tolerance

The habit of tolerance prevents a man from wasting his time and talent on unnecessary matters.

Animosity

One will only be treated as an enemy if that is how one sees others. If one does not view them with animosity, they are more likely to be amicable in return.

Exalted Personality

Try your best to evolve your personality in terms of spiritual and intellectual development. But, as far as your material requirements are concerned, adopt the need based formula and not the greed based formula.

Blame Thyself

The main reason is that criticism, particularly when it is true, brings one down from the high pedestal on which one has placed oneself. Man is a self-lover. He never wants to admit his mistakes. To utter the three damning words, “I am wrong” is so difficult that in the long history of mankind there have been very few cases of people who have actually brought themselves to utter them.

Forgiveness

It is better to say that, if to err is human, to forgive is also human. Perhaps this concept is expressed in the saying: ‘To err is human, but to forgive is divine.’

How to become Beautiful

Sincerity is not a single value. Sincerity combines all good human values. Where there is sincerity, there are all kinds of moral beauty. In contrast, insincerity makes you ugly.

On Money

Spending money is like sowing a seed if the seed will bring you a good harvest, only then it is well worth sowing, otherwise it is better not saw it at all. The same is true of spending money as well.

Wrongdoing

What is "wrongdoing"? Anything that proves to be harmful to one’s fellow men is wrongdoing.

After night there is day

The present is temporary, like the night, and it is certain that after some days there will be a bright future. So, the best policy for man is to work in the present and be sure that someday success will come and bear aloft.

Best Way of Settlement

The conciliatory approach always minimizes the problem, while the confrontational approach aggravates matters, while leaving the initial problem unsolved.