PEACE OF MIND—FOR WHAT?
PEACE OF MIND—FOR WHAT?
Personality Development
PEACE of mind means a condition that is characterized by the absence of anxiety. It is good to live with a peaceful mind. But, what is the purpose of this peace? Generally, people believe that peace of mind is essential because it makes us tension-free, helps us lead a joyful life, makes us do our job or business in a better way, gives us good health, and so on.
It is true that a peaceful mind gives us all these things. But, it is an underestimation of the blessing called a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind is another name for a positive mind. In truth, it is this peaceful mind that makes us capable of living life at its highest level.
The fact is that our mind is a continuously-thinking machine just as the heart, which beats constantly. It is very important to give our thinking a positive direction. If we fail to do this, our thinking process will start moving in the opposite or negative direction. After this, the entire creative ability of the mind will be affected.
Only a positive personality
can achieve the bounties of nature.
We are living in a world of challenge and competition. Everyone is free to act according to their own will. This state of affairs creates all sorts of social problems which people generally give the name of ‘Social evil’. It means that the happiness of one person may be the displeasure of another. So, practically speaking, in society one disturbs the happiness of another to achieve one’s own happiness. In this situation, it is natural for a person to think negatively. Every person’s thinking process has a tendency to turn in the negative direction.
This situation leads to the greatest loss for every human being. The loss being the inability to develop oneself as a positive personality. Only a positive personality can achieve the bounties of nature. A negative personality will be deprived of such bounties. People with negativity live in frustration and die in frustration without achieving the high goal for which they were born.
Given this situation, the first and the most important task before every human being is to give a positive direction to their thinking which in other words refers to continuous intellectual development.
There are three major sources of intellectual development—study, observation and discussion. All three are related to the mind. Only a peaceful mind will be able to take the right lessons from these sources. If the mind is not peaceful, it will not be able to draw the right lessons from anything. Mind is the only door to all kinds of personality development.
Wisdom is the product of a healthy mind
which in turn is a product of positive thinking.
Everyone knows that for good health, one needs to take care of one's body. Similarly, for one's personality development one needs to take care to keep the mind free from all such thoughts which disturbs its thinking process. The mind is an engine. If the engine gets de-railed, then it is impossible to reach the destination.
Wisdom is the greatest asset of every person. It is the ability to judge or discern what is true or right. Mind is the source of all wisdom. The source of physical energy is a healthy body while a healthy mind is the source of wisdom.
Whoever fails to preserve the mind, will be deprived of wisdom. To be deprived of wisdom is to be deprived of all good things. Wisdom is the product of a healthy mind which in turn is a product of positive thinking. o
Look Around
We are often overwhelmed with our share of sorrows and miseries, failing to realize that everyone around us is immersed in a similar plight. We accentuate negativity when we overlook the other person's suffering.