#Inspiration #Leadership #ManageAndLead #wisewords In an authentic Hadith, the Prophet Muhammad (saws) said: “A person is likely to follow the faith of his friend, so look whom you befriend.” (1). Ali (raa) said: “Mix with the noble people, you become one of them; and keep away from evil people to protect yourself from their evils.” (4) missionislam/knowledge/Friendship.htm EVERY BEING LIVES in his own mental world. His joys and sorrows are the creations of his own mind, and are dependent upon the mind for their existence. In the midst of the world, darkened with many sins and sorrows, in which the majority live, there abides another world, lighted up with shining virtues and unpolluted joy, in which the perfect ones live. ✳️This world can be found and entered, and the way to it is by .... ⏩self-control and ⏩moral excellence. It is the world of the perfect life, and it rightly belongs to man, who is not complete until crowned with perfection. ✳️The perfect life is not the faraway, impossible thing that men who are in darkness imagine it to be; it is supremely possible, and very near and real. Man remains a ... craving, weeping, sinning, repenting creature just so long as he wills to do so by clinging to those weak conditions. But .... when he wills to shake off his dark dreams and to rise, he arises and achieves. James Allen Hail to Thee, Man divine! the conqueror Of sin and shame and sorrow; no more weak, Wormlike, and groveling art thou; no, nor Wilt thou again bow down to things that weak Scourgings and death upon thee; thou dost rise Triumphant in thy strength; good, pure and wise. 1. Faith and Courage FOR THOSE WHO WILL FIGHT BRAVELY and not yield, there is triumphant victory over all the dark things of life. ✳️To stand ... face to face with truth; to arrive, after innumerable wanderings and pains, at wisdom and bliss; not to be finally defeated and cast out, but ... ultimately to triumph over every inward foe—such is man’s divine destiny, such his glorious goal. ✳️And this, every saint, sage, and savior has declared. james-allen.in1woord.nl/?text=the-life-triumphant
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