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High Thinking

constantly under double forces, will prove to be successful, and
one who fails to realize this fact he is doomed to failure.
The single point formula of success for every man and woman
therefore can be described in one line: Be cautious. Try to
establish contact with God and angels, and try to detach yourself
from the evil forces of both man and Satan. Attachment and
detachment are psychological processes and can be established
only in the world of consciousness.

High Thinking

he chapter Al-Ahzab (The Confederates) of the Quran
Trefers to what is called zikr Allah in the Quran. The translation
of the relevant verse of the said chapter is as under:
Believers, remember God with much remembrance.
(33:41)
God Almighty is the Creator of the Universe. God is the highest
reality. God is beyond time and space. God is omnipresent. God
is greater than all great things. God is supreme in every sense of
the word.
Remembering God, in other words, means remembering the
Higher Reality. This kind of remembrance inculcates in one’s
mind, high thinking and high thinking is the source of all kinds
of high ideals. It is high thinking that makes one’s personality
a great personality. High thinking leads to spiritual uplift and
intellectual development.
There are two worlds—material world and immaterial world.
High thinking means thinking about the immaterial world.
High thinking means living in the immaterial world. It is this

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