Chapter 5
The ideal person is he who takes pleasure in serving others,and who is ashamed when others do things for him,since showing compassion is a sign of superiority, while receiving it is a sign of failure.
" The upper hand is better than the lower hand".the upper hand refers to the giving hand,and the lower one refers to the receiving hand.
Do not feel deprived as long as you have a loaf of bread, a glass of water and clothes on your back.
A mariner once became lost at sea, and remained lost for twenty one days,when he was saved someone asked him what the greatest lesson was that he took away with him from the experience. He answered,
"The biggest lesson that I learned from it was that if you have fresh water sufficient food,you should never complain".
It has been said that, "life in it's entirety is a morsel of food and a drink of water. Whatever exceeds that is excess".
The best doctors in the world are the proper diet doctor, the rest doctor and the doctor of happiness.....
The reasoning behind this comment is that corpulence is a reprehensible disease that causes the level of ones intelligence to diminish.
Meanwhile, rest and moderation and happiness are satisfying forms of nourishment for the mind,heart and soul.
When you wake up in the morning, do not expect to see the evening...
Live as though today is all that you have.
Yesterday has passed with it's good and evil, while tommorow is yet to come.
Your life's span is but one day, as if you were born In it and will die at the end of it.
With this attitude, you will not be caught between an obsession over the past, with all it's anxieties, and the hope of the future, with all it's uncertainty.
Live for today organize the hours of this day, so that you make years out of minutes and months out of seconds.
Former days are gone and done with and you benefit nothing by carrying out an autopsy over them, by turning back the wheels of history.
Do not live in the nightmares of former times or under the shade of what you have missed.
Save yourself from the ghostly apparition of the past.Do you think that you can return the sun to it's place of rising,the baby to it's mother's womb,milk to the udder, or tears to eyes? By constantly dwelling on the past and it's happenings, you place yourself in a very frightful and tragic state of mind.
The person who lives in the past is like someone who tries to saw sawdust. Of old, they used to say "Do not remove the dead from their Graves".
Live today free from sorrow, bother, anger, jealousy and malice.live everyday believing it could be your last day, is one of the most important statements in the dictionary of happiness, for those who desire to live life in it's fullest splendor and brilliance.
The important thing to know is that tomorrow is from the world of the unseen, a bridge that we do not cross until it comes.
Take account of yourself, keep a journal with you, and in it take account of your actions.write down the negative aspect of your personality and actions, and then think of solutions to rid of yourself of them.
Take account of yourselves before it is taken of you.weigh your deeds before they are weighed for you..
Three mistakes that are common in our everyday lives.
(1) wasting time.
(2) talking about matters that don't concern us, matters that are none of our business.
(3) being preoccupied with trivial issues. Listening to rumors, predictions and gossip are three common examples..
Having characteristic results in paranoia, anxiety and lack of purpose in life.
Read
Reading opens the mind, guide one to correct morals and sharpens one's ability to think. Reading is a comfort for the lonely,a stimulant for the thinker and a lamp for the traveler. lack of reading or making research makes one speech limited, thinking and personality.
Most books contains at least some benefit, whether it is in wise sayings, strange experience, interesting stories or a new knowledge. It can be said that the benefits of reading are beyond enumeration.
Your best companion is a book, an activity that brings about joy is for you to read a book an develop your mind through the acquisition of knowledge. "
The book is a companion that does not praise you and does not entice you to evil.
It is a friend that does not bore you, and it is a neighbor that causes you no harm.
It is an acquaintance that desires not to extract from you favors through flattery, and it doesn't deceive you with duplicity and lies. When you are poring through the pages of a book, your Senses are stimulated and your intellect sharpens....
A book is not impaired by sleep not does it tire in the late hours of the night. It is the teacher who is there for you whenever you are in need of it, and it is the teacher who, if you refuse to give to it, does not refuse to give to you. If you abandon it, it does not decrease in obedience.
And when all turn against you, showing you enmity, it remains by your side.
As long as you are remotely attached to a book,it suffices you from having to keep company with those that are idle.
It prevents you from sitting on your door step and watching those who pass by.
It saves you from mixing with those that are frivolous in their character, foul in their speech and woeful in their ignorance.
If the only benefit of a book was that it keeps you from foolish daydreaming and prevents you from frivolity, it would certainly be considered a true friend who has given you a gift.
I hope you find endless knowledge and guidelines as you read through others experience.