Challenges

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

Encourage Transformation

To share virtues along with knowledge is to encourage transformation in others. When we have to give a suggestion/advise to someone, we tend to share a lot of points of knowledge in order to make them understand. We try to prove logically why they have to change.


Although the reasoning is right most of the time, the others don't seem to change either because they don't understand or because they don't want to understand. When we want to bring transformation in others we need to make sure to share our own virtues along with the points of knowledge. To share virtues means to give them an experience of our love, peace, good wishes etc. When they experience our virtues, they'll be willing to bring about change quickly.

Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

To have knowledge in the intellect is to be constantly cheerful. When something negative happens, we find that there are only negative or waste thoughts about the situation or people. We try hard not to think about it but we find only those thoughts coming to our mind. With such thoughts the situation seems worse than it is and we find it difficult to remain cheerful. In such situations instead of trying to cut out waste we need to give ourselves something positive to think about. When the intellect is busy thinking about the positive, there'll be no room for negativity. In this way we will be able to remain constantly cheerful even in the most negative situations.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Knowledge

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj