Personality Development
English book, p. 84
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The thoughts that come into man’s mind every day build his personality. As the thoughts are, so is the personality. Positive thoughts create a positive personality. Conversely, if one’s thoughts are negative, one’s personality continuously becomes more and more negative. These days, a great many people are drowned in negative thinking. If a person appears to be talking positively, it may be just superficial talk. However, if you converse with him further and try to understand his personality, you may discover that it is as negative as most others. Most people live in a graveyard of negativity, even though they are unaware of this devastating fact. In this, by and large, there is no difference between ‘religious’ and ‘non-religious’ people. The worst character is a negative character, and the best sort of character is a positive one. Hence, the question is how to develop a positive personality. The proper way is that whenever a negative thought enters our mind, we must finish it at the earliest. Then, we should convert that negative aspect into a positive one through a particular method. For example, if you are angry with someone, you must immediately forgive him so that anger does not take the form of revenge and your character is spared from being tainted with the negative attributes of anger and hate. If you feel upset about someone achieving something, you can try to bless the person instead. In this way, jealousy will not enter your character. What we should do is to immediately convert a negative thought into a positive one. If there is a delay in this,

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