During pandemics or disasters, people always invite the great to advise them because they believe these individuals are highly intelligent. In this article, I’ll share with you the advice great people particularly Jesus, Buddha, Rumi, Epictetus, Lao Tzu, and Alexander the Great could have given us during these hard times.
Matthew 6: 27 – ‘Can
any of you by worrying add a single moment to your lifespan?’
Matthew 6:34 –
‘Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.’
‘Do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.’
‘Even death is
not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.’
‘Nothing can
harm you as much as your thoughts unguarded.’
‘Nothing is
forever except change.’
- Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
‘Sorrow prepares
you for joy.’
‘When the world
pushes you to your knees, you’re in a perfect position to pray.’
‘Live life as if
everything is rigged in your favor.’
‘It is not death
or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.’
‘The greater the
difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.’
‘Men are
disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form
concerning things.’
‘Difficulty
shows what men are.’
‘Every
difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke
our own inner resources. The trails we endure can and should introduce us to
our strengths. Prudent people look beyond the incident and seek to form the
habit of putting it to good use.’
‘Don’t hope that
events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they
happen: this is the path to peace.’
‘Stop thinking
and end your problems.’
‘Life is a
series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only
creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in
whatever way they like.’
‘Life and death
are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.’
‘If you are depressed,
you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future.’
‘Through every
generation of the human race, there has been a constant war, a war with fear.
Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are
conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or
death takes them.’
‘Each moment
free from fear makes a man immortal.’
‘Upon the
conduct of each determines the fate of all.’
THE END