Life, a continual battle
Because life means a continual battle one’s success, failure, happiness or unhappiness mostly depends upon one’s knowledge of this battle.
This battle comprises the knowledge of warfare, how to fight, how to make peace.
We are too limited to understand anything.
The full knowledge of warfare is both the knowledge of battle and the knowledge of peace.
Man does not realise how important is his own life, his self. The study of his own life and his own self is a study of the greatest importance.
The best knowledge is not only the knowledge of all that is good and beautiful, all that is harmonious and peaceful, but also the knowledge of the causes that are behind all the conflicts and the battles that one has to face in life.
The competent general is the one who stands firmly in defence.
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity.
It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won, it is he who has perhaps only spoken one word.
There are faculties of the mind
- The faculty of retaining thought
- The faculty of thinking
- The faculty of feeling
- The faculty of reasoning and judging
- The faculty of “I” or ego
It should be clearly understood that the battle with oneself means peace, the battle with another war.
Where there is plurality there must be conflict; and although conflict means tragedy, the true tragedy is ignorance.
What brings bad luck in this world is an optimistic attitude.
Optimism is good as long as the eyes are open, but once closed then optimism can be dangerous.
It is important to control over one’s physical organs and over the faculties of the mind.
Life is such an intoxication that although everybody thinks that he is working in his own interest, hardly one among thousand is really doing so.
Very often people sacrifice many other benefits because they do not think of them.
It is easy to be powerful, it is easy to be good, but it is difficult to be wise — it is the wise who are truly victorious in life.
It is the wise who are truly victorious in life. The nature of life is illusive.
There is hardly one person in a hundred who really works for his true advantage although everything thinks he does.
Living in this life of illusion is very difficult for man to realise what is good for him.
Where ordinary people will not give in, the wise will a hundred times.
In this battle a battery is needed. That battery is the power of will. In this battle of life arms are needed. These arms are the thoughts and actions which work towards success.
The wise know a secret, and that secret is that human nature is imitative.
Knowing of life does not always come by battling
The true warrior is he who can endure, who has a great capacity for tolerance, who has great depth enough in his heart to assimilate all those whose mind reaches far enough to understand all things, whose very desire is to understand others and to help them understand.
Everything is distinguished by its result.
Sensitiveness is life itself. Sensitiveness must be kept in order if one wants to know, understand, and appreciate all that is beautiful.
He must realise before being sensitive that in this world he is among children, among drunken men.
No one can be spiritually developed without being sensitive. Sensitiveness is a human development.
A sensitive person can lose courage and hope much sooner than another.
A sensitive person is ready to take offence, and ready to take everything to heart, and life can become unbearable for him.
Willpower should enable one to endure all influences, all conditions, and all attacks one meets from morning till night.
Sensitiveness should enable one to feel life, to appreciate it, and to live in the beauty of life.
One must acquire balance between power and wisdom.
All things that belong to the earth are foreign to one’s soul. They should not touch one’s soul.
Mind should retain nothing but beauty, all that is beautiful.
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