- Optimist
Do you say the cup is half full or half empty.
The answer determines whether you are an optimist or pessimist.
- Humility
A lady in Toulouse said: "I love to meet the poor and the downtrodden." Perhaps, she craves for their admiration?
I love to be with the rich and the powerful, because they will not respect and honour me, and they will thus preserve my humility - with the selfish who will guard me against my own selfishness - with the wicked who will save me from public approbation.
- Justice
Is there justice in this world? Don't we often, almost always, see wicked ones - who are powerful too, prospering and justifying their aggressive exploitation of the weaker people." We civilised them, we conquered them, we made made them work, we saved them." Superficially there is nothing bur injustice in this world. Yet, if you look deeper, you discover that the aggressor buys material prosperity at the expense of peace and sanity.
Again, there appears to be injustice only when you restrict your vision to a short life-span. When you next ill-treat a poor, weak "foreigner", remember that he may be reborn as your grandson and demand justice in your old age.
The all-seeing Eye of Truth cannot be cheated.
- The Fruit of Action
The 'forbidden fruit' may be no more than 'the fruit of action' in the meaning of the Bhagavad Gita. Man fell from divinity into humanity when he expected the fruits of actions.
- Humble
A humble understands - stands below a mighty man - the only way in which the latter can be made to bow down.