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Leading A Spiritual Life

intellectual development. So from being a bad person,
he is converted into a good person.
Mistakes play an important role in a man’s life. If
an individual does not make mistakes, he becomes
intellectually stagnant. Mistakes, in terms of their
results, give a person a creative mind. For a human
being, such a process is indispensable for intellectual
development, and also for a person who is lacking in
moral fibre to be converted into a worthy individual.

This law of nature gives us a great lesson. When you
make a mistake, do not take it as a negative experience.
Take it rather as a process of nature. Nature wants to
activate your thinking, so that your state of mind, if
formerly uncreative, is now blessed with creativity. In
all human progress, it is this process that is the most
effective. Samuel Smiles (1812 – 1904) has rightly said:
‘We learn wisdom from failure much more than from
success.’

Peace for the Sake of Peace

Peace cannot present a person with what he desires. It is for
the person himself to reach his goal through planning and
struggle.

eace is the most discussed theme in the world. Every
Psection of society claims that it wants to establish

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