Lecture 14
Control Your Life
We have talked about proper planning and directing ourselves in order to do well in life. Now is the time to talk about proper controls and order in our life. We need orderliness around us if we are to succeed in all our activities. Learning to control our emotions, movements and thoughts is very important. It is difficult to live a happy life if our life is full of uncontrolled activities and emotions.
There are many aspects of our life that we need to control sensibly. These include our emotions, our actions, our speech, our thinking and our family life. Many of us need anger management because we lose our temper easily on petty matters. Some of us need to control our poor habits of telling lies. Others need to keep a check and balance on such things as personal cleanliness. Yet there are some of us who love to get into unnecessary conflicts.
Through proper controls of these aspects of life we are able to build strong self-image and overcome many of our confusions and troubles. If we treasure and promote good and acceptable human emotions of love, friendship, kindness and peaceful living then we develop good relationship with all around us.
Love is an essential human feeling that creates harmony in the family and the community. Love for our family members, our pets, our country and our people is essential for us to enjoy our life. We learn to love because we find some aspects of truth, beauty and goodness in the people or things we love and to be able to look for and find these important traits can be difficult but exhilarating. When we are able to see the difference between unconditional and conditional love we are able to control this feeling to our advantage.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. We must choose our friends carefully and to be able to do this safely we need to know what are the qualities of a good friend. We should know that the greatest gift couldn’t be found in a store or under a tree but in the hearts of true friends. So the only way to have a friend is to be one. We will have a happy life if we love our friends, respect them and behave ourselves to make them respect us. If we are able to control this aspect of our life then all our friends are people who know all good and bad about us and still like us.
There is no limit to human kindness, courtesy and good conduct. There is no reason why we cannot display absol