Preparing for Life's Challenges
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The document discusses the importance of preparation and foresight in facing life's challenges, drawing analogies from building a tower and engaging in war. It emphasizes that success requires adequate planning and wisdom, while highlighting the potential failures that arise from lack of preparation. Ultimately, it advocates for deep faith, meticulous planning, and the resolve to follow through in order to overcome crises.
Preparing for Life's Challenges
- 2. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation , and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”…
- 3. Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke 14:28-31
- 4. A ship, which is not well prepared, in the ocean goes to destruction, together with its goods and merchants. But when a ship is well prepared, and well joined together, then it does not break up, and all the goods get to the other shore…
- 5. Just so a bodhisattva, exalted in faith, but deficient in wisdom, swiftly comes to a failure in enlightenment. But when he is well joined to wisdom, the foremost perfection, he experiences, unharmed and uninjured, the enlightenment of the Jinas. Verses on the Perfection of Wisdom which is the Storehouse of Precious Virtues 14:7-8
- 6. Success is the result of foresight and resolution; foresight depends upon deep thinking and planning to keep your secrets to yourself. Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 46
- 7. To overcome a crisis you must have deep faith, plans made in detail, and the conviction to carry them out. The Way of God’s Will, 3.4