Adversity does not, by an means essentially imply, poverty. Poverty is only incidental to a selfish system of economic organisation. Poverty may come from idleness, intemperance, extravagance and folly. The right hand of prosperity is industry and the left hand of it frugality. When both the hands reach the stage of gangrene -the right by idleness and the left by extravagance; the child with amputated hands is poverty. Poverty is also heaped on many by a poor State administration coupled with faulty planning.
Adversity, on the other hand, implies purely the frustration of the hopes of man and the ruin of his comforts. To some it means loss of health, to some loss of wealth, to some loss of reputation, to some loss of kith and kins, and to some loss of victory of achievements; to some it means regrets and remorses, and to some hard memories and unrealized expectations. Adversity is the worst situation caused by adverse circumstances. There is nobody in the world who is immune to adversity. It may fall upon a man, a family, a community, a state, a country. But adversity is the greatest teacher. It teaches the old and the young; the humble and the proud; the great and the small. It all depends on the man to make the best use of adversity.
Napoleon Said, "Tragedy is the school of life." Lord Macaulay remarked" Adversity unites people and prosperity parts them." "Adversity is the greatest eye-opener of man". said shankaracharia, the master philosopher of India. To Shakespeare adversity is a means to great earthly ends. The influence which adversity has on the thoughts, emotions, words and actions of man is very profound and very useful in life. The attitude of the people towards adversity is three fold: (a) a pessimistic view of life, realizing that life is not a bed of roses, but a bed of thorns; or (b) an optimistic view of life declaring that the world is a field of action, of glory, of courage and fortitude; or (c) that take a middle view of life, neither pessimistic nor optimistic; taking life as a great means to the greatest and-to them the twin forces of pleasure and pain constitute the music of humanity. It is only through adversity- that is, when a profound frustration of man's motives, or the shattering of hopes and dreams, or a colossal reverse of fortune occurs that man begins to understand the profound truths of life an philosophy.
The lamp of experience guides our feet. Experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the tracks it has passes. Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it. The consensus of opinion, religious, philosophical or scientific, is that experience is the greatest treasure of man. If there were no adversity in life indeed there would be no experience at all. The one sided experience of pleasure only would be so monotonous to man that he would not desire to live at all. There is no education like adversity.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends, prosperity wins friends, adversity tries them. As threshing separates the sheaf from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
For sometime Adversity may seem to benumb the zeal of a worker, but finally it only helps in stimulating and strengthening it. Only seemingly-adversity is painful or baneful, actually it is a boom fro Great God. Adversity has got wonderful uses. It reveals the wisdom of books in brooks, tongues in trees, sermons in stones and good in everything. Adversity unweaves the illusions of our Caesarian minds, Napoleonic dreams and Alexandrian confidence. Byron has rightly remarked, "Adversity is the first path to truth." "It is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
Adversity teaches that there is a sanctity attached to human life. Whether life moves towards love, harmony, humanity, conciliation and spirituality there is the kingdom of God. Adversity raises us above caste and class prejudices. It bridges the gulf between our lower self and our higher self. Prosperity renders us more conceited, rougher and more inconsiderate. Adversity brings us nearer to our fellow men Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the sold with adversity.
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Adversity, on the other hand, implies purely the frustration of the hopes of man and the ruin of his comforts. To some it means loss of health, to some loss of wealth, to some loss of reputation, to some loss of kith and kins, and to some loss of victory of achievements; to some it means regrets and remorses, and to some hard memories and unrealized expectations. Adversity is the worst situation caused by adverse circumstances. There is nobody in the world who is immune to adversity. It may fall upon a man, a family, a community, a state, a country. But adversity is the greatest teacher. It teaches the old and the young; the humble and the proud; the great and the small. It all depends on the man to make the best use of adversity.
Napoleon Said, "Tragedy is the school of life." Lord Macaulay remarked" Adversity unites people and prosperity parts them." "Adversity is the greatest eye-opener of man". said shankaracharia, the master philosopher of India. To Shakespeare adversity is a means to great earthly ends. The influence which adversity has on the thoughts, emotions, words and actions of man is very profound and very useful in life. The attitude of the people towards adversity is three fold: (a) a pessimistic view of life, realizing that life is not a bed of roses, but a bed of thorns; or (b) an optimistic view of life declaring that the world is a field of action, of glory, of courage and fortitude; or (c) that take a middle view of life, neither pessimistic nor optimistic; taking life as a great means to the greatest and-to them the twin forces of pleasure and pain constitute the music of humanity. It is only through adversity- that is, when a profound frustration of man's motives, or the shattering of hopes and dreams, or a colossal reverse of fortune occurs that man begins to understand the profound truths of life an philosophy.
The lamp of experience guides our feet. Experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the tracks it has passes. Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it. The consensus of opinion, religious, philosophical or scientific, is that experience is the greatest treasure of man. If there were no adversity in life indeed there would be no experience at all. The one sided experience of pleasure only would be so monotonous to man that he would not desire to live at all. There is no education like adversity.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends, prosperity wins friends, adversity tries them. As threshing separates the sheaf from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
For sometime Adversity may seem to benumb the zeal of a worker, but finally it only helps in stimulating and strengthening it. Only seemingly-adversity is painful or baneful, actually it is a boom fro Great God. Adversity has got wonderful uses. It reveals the wisdom of books in brooks, tongues in trees, sermons in stones and good in everything. Adversity unweaves the illusions of our Caesarian minds, Napoleonic dreams and Alexandrian confidence. Byron has rightly remarked, "Adversity is the first path to truth." "It is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
Adversity teaches that there is a sanctity attached to human life. Whether life moves towards love, harmony, humanity, conciliation and spirituality there is the kingdom of God. Adversity raises us above caste and class prejudices. It bridges the gulf between our lower self and our higher self. Prosperity renders us more conceited, rougher and more inconsiderate. Adversity brings us nearer to our fellow men Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the sold with adversity.
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