English book · Leading A Spiritual Life

Making Life Meaningful

English book, p. 357

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Making Life Meaningful According to the common dictionary, a tightrope walk is an item of entertainment. But there is another dictionary—the dictionary of wisdom. In this dictionary, tightrope walk means ‘living with wisdom’. A dictionary of words can enhance your vocabulary, but a dictionary of wisdom gives you a chance to achieve success while remaining unaffected by the vicissitudes of life. Everyone is full of desires, but the world outside of us is full of realities. You have to maintain a wise balance between your personal desires and external realities. This is the real art of life. This is an art which is required by everyone, be he a leader or a common man, a wealthy person or a poor man, an educated or an uneducated person. Life is the same for all. Almost everyone is destined to face the same situations, so everyone would be well advised to adopt this very formula of tightrope walking. Making Life Meaningful The right formula of life is that which can give a person satisfaction till the end of life, and not just for some temporary period. T here is an English proverb, ‘The end justifies the means’. Perhaps, there is another more relevant principle which may be expressed thus: ‘The end

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