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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
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The Awakening of the Soul
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Outlook on Life
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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
The Awakening of the Soul
Outlook on Life
There is an awakening from childhood to youth and from youth to mature age and during this development one's point of view, one's outlook in life changes. Also sometimes in one's life, when one has gone through an illness or a great suffering, at the end of it the whole outlook on life has changed. One also sees that a person who has taken a long journey after having come back has quite changed. Also after a friendship, after a pupilship, after a marriage a sudden change comes in the outlook of a person, and we find that there are some cases where the change is so great that we may say that he is an entirely new person.
Seeing this we can divide such changes which may be called developments into three classes: - One class pertains to the physical development,
- another is connected with the development of the mind and
- the third class with the development of the soul.
There are instances in the lives of many - who rarely will say or admit it - that they can recollect experiences in their childhood when in one moment's time their whole outlook on life changed. As ripening is a desired result, it is the result of every object in life to ripen and to develop. Therefore the fulfillment of life's purpose is to be expected in the awakening of the soul.
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