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Quranic Wisdom

All qualities—wisdom, positive thinking, love, generosity,
forbearance, and so on are innate in man. Given a chance to
grow, just as a seed grows to become a complete tree, a man
would also grow into a complete man.
What hinders the growth or personality development in
man? Man has to live in society and there he always encounters
unwanted situations, which can disturb him. He may thus
develop anger, hatred, malice, and negative thinking. These
obstruct the natural course of growth of man. In such a scenario,
man’s personality development has just one condition—that he
develops in him the quality of patience. He must learn to remain
unaffected despite facing unwanted experiences. In other words,
he must learn the art of unaffected living.
Now the question is how to lead an unaffected life? The
method is very simple. It is all a matter of thirty seconds. You
need to become Mr. Thirty Seconds or Ms. Thirty Seconds, and
the remaining job will be done by nature.
Whenever you encounter an unwanted situation, you tend
to become impatient. If left unchecked, it would reach the state
of a breakdown. If you want to put a check on your unwanted
reaction, you need to empty your mind for thirty seconds by
observing silence. As a result, the anti-wave that had arisen,
would break and disperse. It would not become a part of your
personality.
If you practice this, you will realize that although for the first
thirty seconds you were very disturbed but after thirty seconds,
you became absolutely normal. After thirty seconds, you return
to your normal state of mind.
If you want to test the veracity of this formula, you need to
experiment with it. In the very first experience you will find that
this formula is a hundred percent successful formula.

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