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Leading A Spiritual Life
a chance. When we are faced with some unwanted
situation, our powers of reasoning are generally
swamped by a flood of negative thoughts. But if we can
only keep quiet, the cooling down faculty of its own
dispels the negativity. It changes the direction of the
flood and within seconds, it is gone. Keep silent for
thirty seconds. Everything will return to normal, as if
nothing at all had happened.
Unnecessary Complaints
Challenges are for our own good. They come into our lives in
order to train us, to increase us in wisdom and to strengthen
us.
he British MP Enoch Powell (1912 – 1998) once
Tmade an interesting comment about political
leaders who complain about the media. He felt that
such complaints were unnecessary or unjustified. ‘A
politician who complains about the media,’ he said, ‘is
like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.’
This comment is absolutely true. It applies, however,
not just to political leaders, but, actually, to every person.
Whenever someone complains about someone else, his
or her complaint is actually a needless complaint. He or
she turns an issue into a cause for complaint, although
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