If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.
Interpretation
Forgiving those who hurt you can lead to inner peace.
This quote highlights the importance of letting go of the pain inflicted by others as a personal challenge and a means to achieve tranquility. By choosing to release resentment and injury, one can cultivate a sense of serenity and emotional well-being, signifying that true strength lies in forgiveness rather than holding onto grudges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and emotional health.
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.
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, Iβm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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