Fasting Transforms Thinking
Submitted by admin1 on Wed, 04/06/2022 - 13:00Leading a life of restraint for a whole month produces a transformation in one’s thinking. It enables one to offer a positive response even to another’s negative behaviour.
Leading a life of restraint for a whole month produces a transformation in one’s thinking. It enables one to offer a positive response even to another’s negative behaviour.
Negative feelings, it must be remembered, present the greatest obstacle to human progress. Fasting is the pious way to solve the biggest of human problems.
The unflinching self-restraint, which prevents a person from eating or drinking while on a fast, is the virtue which will guarantee moral behaviour throughout his life.
Fasting is not just a matter of temporarily enduring hunger and thirst; it is a lesson in the permanent practice of patience and tolerance throughout one’s entire life.
We have to live with differences rather than try to eliminate them. Co-existence is the only way of peaceful existence.
Happiness is a state of the mind. Only you can make yourself happy. No one can gift happiness to you.
Wise is one who deliberately forgets the bitter memories of the past, who does not let his mind become a jungle of bitter thoughts.
The best policy is, to avoid all friction by ignoring all provocation, for trouble ignored, is trouble averted.
When one raises oneself to a level where material things become secondary and inner meanings become of prime importance, then one is a spiritual person.
In this world, the only secret of success is to learn to live with problems and construct one’s lives despite their existence.