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Water from Stones: Conflict-Resolution through Gentleness
documents. Finally, they decided in favour of the
Muslim.
These men were, to begin with, like rocks, but when
they were pressed, as it were, by the Muslim man’s noble
behaviour, drops of water then began dripping from the
‘rocks’!
A psychologist very rightly remarks, “When one’s
ego is provoked, it turns into super-ego, and the result
is breakdown.” The fact is that there is a ‘devil’ inside
every human being. Ordinarily, this ‘devil’ lies fast
asleep. Your intelligence lies in letting this ‘devil’ in
others remain sleeping. If, however you act foolishly, you
will awaken this ‘devil’, and then it will go about doing
everything that it can against you. No matter whose
hidden ‘devil’ you awaken through your foolishness—
he could be someone from your community or from
another; he could even be your own brother or other
close relative—you will have to face the same sort of
bitter consequences.
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