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.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.
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