Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela came out of prison with a grin and a glow. The man saluted the world just as record and personality culture was striking a peak. He modified the globalizing era – was a reconciler and statesman who expressed cultural equality in a method that struck the heart.

Mandela’s thoughts and philosophy appeared in light. His public addresses helped him reach his goal and earned him his rights. The man found the influence and spirit. He also had a separate “spiritual life.”

As Mandela quoted: sincerity, seriousness, minimalism, humbleness, pure kindness, absence of pride, willingness to serve others – characters which are surrounded by easy reach of every soul – are the foundations of one’s spiritual life.

People learnt from his spirituality that Improvement in matters of this nature is unthinkable without serious introspection, without knowing yourself, your weaknesses and mistakes. In any case, if for nothing else, the cell offers you the prospect to look daily into your entire conduct, to conquer the bad and build up whatever is good in you. Meditation about 15 minutes a day before you turn in, can be very creative in this regard.

More, one may find it hard at first to pinpoint the negative features in his or her life, but the 10th attempt may yield rich rewards. Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying. However, Mandela didn't talk about hatred or feelings of retribution, at least in the letters. He places a wholly different line:

"The cell is a supreme place to study to know yourself, to search sensibly and frequently the course of your own mind and feelings. In judging our evolution as individuals we tend to focus on outer factors for instance one’s societal position, power, influence and fame, prosperity and standard of education.

These are, certainly, significant in calculating one’s victory in material matters and it is completely explicable if many people use themselves mainly to attain all these. But internal factors may be even more vital in assessing one’s development as a human being".

But Mandela’s thought certainly was to settle differences on the basis of non-violence, and to honour the other.

What space the man born in 1918 had come? In a piece of his incomplete autobiography that comes out in Conversations that his early days with some ruefulness.

As a young man he shared all the weaknesses, mistakes and carelessness of a nation boy, whose range of dream and knowledge was influenced mostly by events in the area in which he grew up and the colleges to which he was sent.

He relied on superiority that hides his weaknesses. As an adult my comrades raised him and other fellow prisoners from darkness although the atmosphere of being one of the world’s longest serving prisoners never totally disappeared.

A matter that extremely worried him in prison was the false image that he innocently anticipated to the outside world of being regarded as a saint. Yet something remarkably cultivates in the self-described young black man, who joins the Methodist Church, and does have an interest in the Bible.

From imprison, Mandela explained to his wife about a novel he read in 1964 called “Shadows of Nazareth.” It was about the experiment of Christ Jesus. The story in the novel is that of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator who is requested by the Sanhedrin to judge Jesus.

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