Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.
Interpretation
Hate and prayer both affect the one who engages in them rather than the target of their feelings or actions.
This quote by John Templeton suggests that emotions such as hate, similar to the act of prayer, have a transformative effect on the individual who experiences them, rather than influencing the object of their emotion. Engaging in hate can lead to personal negativity and deterioration, while prayer may foster personal growth and positivity, highlighting the internal rather than external repercussions of our feelings and actions.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of negative emotions on mental health, this quote can be used to highlight how hate affects the hater.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
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