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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 495 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
Today, I would like to discuss about personality development. Each and every man possesses many character traits as we know and each trait is very different and distant from the others.
One type of man for instance is angry constantly. In contrast, there’s the calm individual who is never moved to anger or if at all, he will be slightly angry, perhaps once during many years. Then there’s also the prideful man and the one who is exceptionally humble. There’s the man ruled by his appetites. He will never be satisfied for pursuing his desires, and conversely, the very pure of heart who does not desire even the little that the body needs. There’s also the greedy man who cannot be satisfied with all the money in the world. As it says in the proverb, a “lover of money never has his fill of money.”
In contrast however, there is the man who puts a check on himself. He is satisfied with even a little which is not enough for his needs and he needs not bother to pursue and attain what he lacks, but he feels fine with that. There is also the miser, he torments himself with hunger and he gathers all his possessions close to himself. Whenever he spends a penny of his own, he does so with great pain. Conversely, there is the spendthrift who consciously wastes his whole entire fortune.
All of the traits fall at the same pattern of contrast. For example, the overly elated and the depressed, the stingy and the free-handed, the cruel and the soft-hearted, the coward and the rash, and the like.
Between each trait and the contrasting traits of the other extreme, there are intermediate points each distance from the other. Now, you’ll note that it is interesting that with regards to all the traits, a man has some, from the beginning of his conception, in accordance with his nature, some are appropriate to a person’s nature and will therefore be acquired more easily than others. Some traits, he doesn’t have from birth. He may have learned them from others: parents, siblings, teachers, peers, many other ways, or they would turn to them on his own.
Also, this may have been some that have come to him as a result of his own thoughts or because he heard that this was the proper trait for him, and therefore, he tried very hard to attain that trait, so he accustomed himself to it and until it became a big part of himself.
You see, the two extremes of each trait which are at a distance from one another do not reflect by any means a proper path. No. It’s not fitting that a man should behave in accordance with these extremes or teach them to himself. It’s not what we need, it’s not what you want. If he finds that his nature leans towards one of the extremes or that he adapted himself to it or if he’s learned one of the extremes and he acts accordingly, he should bring himself back to what is proper.
The straight path is what involves discovering the midpoint. The midpoint temperament of each and every trait that a man possesses. This refers to the trait which is equidistant from either of the extremes without being too close to either of them and that’s the way a person should live, and that’s what I wish for you, because I know you deserve it.
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