MY THOUGHTS TODAY
1.
War
is a crime against humanity. Its results are death and destruction. It does not
solve problems, rather multiplies them.
2.
Modern
wars are more lethal because of more deadly weapons. Those who win may not be deserving ones because the principle of might
is right is always in vogue.
3.
Man-making
education is vanishing. Money-making is taking its place.
4.
Greed
rather than contentment is the rule today. In an old story a farmer was allowed
to occupy as much land as he could cover by walking. His greed did not allow
him to stop walking at the safest time. Consequently, over-walking exhausted
him so much that he died.
5.
Greed
is the mother of many evils. It creates immoral rivalry and undesirable
disputes. It presents virtues as vices and vices as virtues. In many cases it
stands for fair is foul, and foul is
fair.
6.
It
is undesirable to spoil one’s health for the sake of wealth.
7.
Communalism
is poisonous. All faiths and religions have their own beauty. They lead to the
supreme God who is only one. The earth, the sky, the sun and the moon and
billions of world’s contents are His creation.
8.
It
has been rightly said by James Kirkup, a modern English poet (born 1923) that
no men are strange, no countries foreign, beneath all uniforms, a single body
breathes like ours; the land our brothers walk upon is earth like this, in
which we all shall lie. They, too, aware of sun and air and water, are fed by
peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d. Their hands are ours, and in
their lines we read a labour not different from our own.
9.
Prayers
cover the whole of man’s life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or
desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects
our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of His
sympathy.
10.
Pride, the most dangerous of all faults,
proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
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G. R. Kanwal
29 March 2026
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