Factors contributing to progress
The Path of progress is paved with good resolution.The world owes its origin and continuity to resolution. He Who has come face to face with this reality is guaranteed to make rapid progress. The road may be beset with many difficulties but they cannot impede his forward movement. Misery does not dodge his steps in this world, He finds happiness in this world and the world to come. Th's world is the playground of will-power. It has come into being out of resolution. One who knows the truth of this matter finds himself always away from the mess of sorrow.When we know for certain that the joys and sorrows around us are the products of our own will they cannot make us much miserable as they could otherwise have. In other words. when we hurt ourselves the resulting pain will not be as acute as the pain we get when others hurt us. Interpreted broadly, this is what we mean when we say like-poles attract and un-like poles repel. To him who believes that the divine will is the orig...