English book · Leading A Spiritual Life

Leading A Spiritual Life

English book, p. 374

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

result. By adopting this formula, you will reach your goal without any delay. Be practical and do not waste your time and energy. Tread the path of adjustment, and ensure your success. Planning based on Remnant The best formula in life is not to concern oneself with what has been lost, but by wise planning, to avail of what is stil extant. Sooner or later, you wil emerge as a super-achiever. T he German statesman Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898) once rightly observed that politics is the art of the possible. This aphorism can be usefully extended to include planning. Planning should be done on the basis of whatever is available to you. This means to plan on the basis of what remains. Such planning can be termed as ‘planning based on remnant’. In chalking out a course of action, people are generally obsessed with the concept of totality. They want to have things in totality and are reluctant to accept the fulfilment of their goals in any partial way. But thinking along these lines goes against the law of nature. The realistic formula in this regard is that if the total is not achievable, one should be content with achieving just a part. There are nations in many parts of the world which

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