One advantage of positive status quoism is that it
obviates the baneful effects of frustration that come
from a sense of deprivation. Bright prospects are
discernible in all situations, however unfavourable
those situations might appear. The miraculous
benefit of positive status quoism is that it gives
human beings unlimited courage. It saves them in
all situations from becoming so discouraged that all
doors appear closed, and they fail to identify any
viable course of action.
Violence results from a feeling of deprivation, while
peace results from a sense of discovery. Those who
have the notion that they have been deprived of
what is rightfully theirs suffer perennially from
negative psychology. It is this negativism that
frequently takes the form of violence. But those who
live with the positive feeling that they have
experienced the feeling of discovery enjoy mental
peace. Their lives remain eternally peaceful.
Those individuals or groups who feel hatred for
others, and who stoop to violence in their dealings
with them, prove by their behaviour that their
grievances derive from a sense of deprivation. On
the contrary, those individuals or groups who lead
peaceful lives prove by their behaviour that they
have experienced the feeling of finding what they
truly desire in life. The mind of a frustrated person
is always obsessed with the prevalent state of
affairs. While a person whose mind is free from the
psychology of frustration will be capable of
thinking by rising above the immediate
circumstances. Thus a frustrated person is a
present–oriented person while a person free from
frustration is a future oriented person.
Ref -The Ideology of Peace
- by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
