strength is life Posted by Nitu Arora

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Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin. You must wholly

avoid it. Many things may occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a

mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express them. Everything ends,

if you forgive and forget. If anybody comes to you for vain dispute,

politely withdraw yourself.

 

You must express your sympathy with people of all sects. When these

cardinal virtues will be manifested in you, then only you will be able

to work with great energy.

 

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being

pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than

any prayer.

 

The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we

love and the better will our work be.

 

Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable, because

we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we

are weak. We suffer, because we are weak. We die, because we are weak.

Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death, no sorrow.

 

Arise! Awake! and stop not till the goal is reached!

 

Any expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is

expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only

law of life. He who loves, lives; he who is selfish is dying.

Therefore, love for love's sake. Because, it is the only law of life.

 

The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we

love and the better will our work be.

 

You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly,

but do not do a slave's work.

 

Be 'unattached'; let things work; let brain-centres work; work

incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind. Work as if you

were a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work incessantly, but do

not bind youselves; bondage is terrible.