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The Wisdom of Life
hopelessness, there is new hope, and after every failure,
there is a great success. After every dark night, there is a
bright morning.”

My spiritual tree never left its allotted space. It did not
protest against anyone; it never demanded that others
find it new, living leaves. It remained at the same place
and started a new process within itself. What was this
process? The process was to get its food from below as
well as from sunlight. The strategy worked. The whole of
nature came to its aid and after some months, it gained
its lost greenery once again. This is the lesson I learned
from my spiritual tree.

No protest, no complaint, no demand, no street activism
or stage activism: simply trust your own natural abilities
and work silently. Try to reshape your destiny. And very
soon you will be glad to discover that you have regained
your life.

In this life often, you face experiences when a person
abuses you, troubles you, provokes you. In that case you
have two ways of responding to them. One is the way of
‘tit for tat’. Just as you have been troubled, you do the same
to the other person. You also abuse him, trouble him or
harm him. You are provoked to another’s provocation.
The one who responds in this manner develops a negative
personality in him. On the contrary, another person is
the one who responded in a positive manner to negative
behaviour: the one who was abused by others but himself
did not abuse anyone. Others tormented him but he did
not torment others. The one who was harmed, but did
not harm others. These are the characteristics of a truly

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