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But it is Very Difficult

Living in a state of negativity, is a kind of self-killing.

once happened to meet a young employee of a
I multinational company, who complained that his
boss promoted other employees, while denying him
promotion. I advised him that instead of complaining
about his boss, he should improve his own performance,
and then the boss would be compelled to acknowledge
his good work and would certainly give him in the future
what he didn’t give him in the present. In response to
this, he said, “You are right, but that would be very
difficult to do.”
If those engaged in fighting for their rights were
told that the better way to get what is due to them
was through their own efforts and struggle, and that
demands and protests would not work, they too would
say that that was right but that it would be very difficult
to do.

If someone is living in a state of negativity, and you
tell him that negative thinking is a kind of self-killing
and that he should forget the past and try to live in the
future, he too would say: “You are right but that would
be very difficult. ”
‘But it would be very difficult’ is a wrong conception.

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