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Leading A Spiritual Life

Positive thinking is the other name for natural
thinking. Positive thinking cannot be acquired from
the external world. It is your inner nature that provides
a reservoir of positive thought. Preserve your inborn
nature and you will surely emerge as a positive thinker.
Every human being is born with great potential. Allow
your potential to unfold and you will become a positive
thinker in the perfect sense of the word.
Why are men and women so often incapable of
positive thinking? The sole reason for this is that they
fail to draw upon the reservoir nature has given them.
Everyone is born with eyes, but if he closes his eyes, he
will not be able to see anything. The same is true of
positive thinking; it comes naturally to every individual,
provided he does not ‘close his eyes’ to it.

The opposite of positive thinking, negative thinking,
is like shutting one’s eyes. If you want to live as a
positive thinker, try to distance yourself from negative
thought. Positive thinking enhances the inner qualities
of every human being, while negative thinking does
the very opposite. Negative thinking can all too easily
overwhelm one’s better self, therefore, concerted effort
is required to keep it at bay. For positive thinking you
need only to ‘open your eyes’.
The problem here is that we are living in society. Man
is a social animal. He is bound to live in society. What
is society? Society is a construct whereby human beings
live in congregation for mutual benefit. But all of its
members have their differences. Difference is a part of
nature. Every man is born as Mr. Different and every

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