Obstacles help you achieve your goals

Most of us believe that our life stops when we pass through a painful stage of life. That is not true, but on the contrary the pain makes us stronger and provides us opportunity to learn something new. I chanced upon a book ‘Invincible Thinking’ written by great Japanese writer and founder of Institute of Human happiness Ryuho Okawa. That was so inspiring I could not stop quoting him here.

You will appreciate what he says about facing obstacles and pain ‘that just by reading and practicing the thoughts and by using the thoughts as your own power you will be able to declare that there is no such thing as defeat but only victory’. I have a firm belief that what I get is what I worked for and I am thankful for what has been provided to me. In fact, I got what I was looking for.

These are his own words “There should be no doubt that our life can be compared to the construction of a tunnel; we are often obstructed by solid rocks. Invincible thinking works as the powerful drill to break through these rocks”.

But the truth is that we can always learn so much from our surroundings and when we practice this we have more chances to win than losing. We shall never feel defeated in our life. He says, look at the tree of a bamboo that grows so fast and tall but in the process of growing it develops lumps and stops growing at that point but as it overcome the process grows even faster after that.  Some of the verities of bamboo grow as tall as 35-40 meters and grow at the rate of 80-90 cm a day despite the entire blockage due to joints.

Ups and downs are part of our life and if we only manage to learn how to live with them and adjust with all these with a positive mindset there is no reason we cannot come out of any situation however tough. Pain or obstacle is something thing that blocks one’s way or prevents us for a moment but at the same time gives us strength to fight our way out of the trouble.

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