Leading A Spiritual Life
English book, p. 48
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
asking for its price, this is a silent message to man that we too have to live as giver persons in our society without expecting that the receivers should give us anything in return. This kind of experience promotes the culture of selflessness, the culture of unilateral ethics, the spirit of living as a problem-free member of the society. We need a model code of ethics, and nature serves as that model. Nature is a divine factory. It produces those items that are highly suitable for us. Strangely enough, this industry works without consulting us. The character of nature is a predictable one. So it is required of us that we live in our society as predictable members of it. Nature works in a predictable manner, thus it gives us this lesson: live as a predictable member of your society. The highest quality of a human being can be summed up in these two words: predictable character. Big Bird of the Storm Spirituality is not something mysterious: it is a wel-known discipline and can be defined as a form of positive thinking. W hen there is a severe storm, birds with small wings are caught up in it, but large birds with strong wings fly upwards and save themselves from becoming victims of the storm. On the basis of this phenomenon, there is a saying

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