Positive Aids to Peace of Mind - 10

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10. Never Regret

 

If you fight shy of obstacles, then you can do nothing worthwhile in

life. You can at best vegetate, but that is not living. Living, to be

true, must be purposeful. You must have goals to reach, ideals to

strive for. And goals cannot be reached without encountering

opposition. Such opposition should not upset your peace of mind, but

should strengthen your will to fight the battle of life heroically.

It will be possible if you learn to accept these opposing forces as

an inevitable part of phenomenal life, as unavoidable evil.

 

Never regret. Learn the lessons from your past experiences. Remember

the lessons. Let the lessons guide your future actions. But do not

brood over the past. Do no regret " If I had done that, I would have

become this... If only I had. " †" it is all futile thinking, waste of

time and energy. Because worry depletes energy. Does nothing more.

The fact is whatever happened was destined to happen only that way.

It could not have happened in any other way. Everything, from the

tiniest movement of a particle of the mightiest disturbances in the

universe, everything in the past, present and future, every cause and

every effect, has been ordained in certain way by the omnipresent,

omniscient and omnipotent Will of God. Things happen as they are

destined to happen. Whatever will be will be. No man has the power to

alter the course of God’s Will. Que sera sera is eternally true,

universally true. To regret, to brood is to show your cowardice in

the face of the inevitability of events and to disturb your peace of

mind for nothing. Wisdom lies in seeing the working of God’s Will in

every happening and remaining at peace with your self and the world.