Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
Interpretation
Choosing kindness over the need to be right fosters peace in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of kindness in our interactions with others, particularly when faced with conflict or disagreement. It suggests that prioritizing being kind over being right can lead to a more peaceful and harmonious existence, as the pursuit of being right often escalates tensions and disputes.
In practice
During a team meeting when disagreements arise, opt to express empathy and understanding instead of asserting your viewpoint.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
Diabetes taught me discipline.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.
There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
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