Stand up, be bold, be strong

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Posted by Ritu Arora on 07/26/08

 

Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable, because

we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we

are weak. We suffer, because we are weak. We die, because we are weak.

Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death, no sorrow.

 

Strength is the one thing needful. Strength is the medicine for the

world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have

when tyrannized over by the rich. Strength is the medicine which the

ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned. And it is the

medicine that sinners must have when tyrannized over by other sinners.

 

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your

own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore

make your own future.

 

Thinking all the time that we are diseased, will not cure us; medicine

is necessary. Being reminded of weakness does not help much. Give

strength; and strength does not come by thinking of weakness all the

time. The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but

thinking of strength.

 

Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear

is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings

misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes

fear? Ignorance of our own nature. Each of us is heir-apparent to the

Emperor of Emperors.

 

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word -

weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil-doing.

It is weakness that is the source of all selfishness. It is weakness

that makes men injure others. It is weakness that makes them manifest

what they are not in reality.