If you don't fight your corner, who else will fight it for you?' That's the argument that many people advance in defence of an assertive, even aggressive, stance. But one could equally argue that, 'If you spend your life looking for corners to fight, you will be forever in conflict'. We were not put on this earth to fight. Life is for living and that's always easier when we allow ourselves to do a little loving, trusting and sharing. Indeed, it is more satisfying to experience that than to win any number of victories. Go easy.
The world, it sometimes seems, is full of woefully insensitive individuals. They don't even realise how selfish they are being or how rude or unkind. But then, they are insensitive! What else could we expect of them? This raises a big question about an appropriate response to such behaviour. Should it be met with retribution or education? Even if it is possible to combine the two, ought it not to be more important to convey an understanding than to exact revenge?
Somehow now, you must be delicate and wise.We all love the old children's story about the emperor's new clothes. Nobody dared criticise this invisible outfit until a small innocent child shouted out, 'His majesty is naked!' Right now, you have the potential power to be either the refreshing voice of realism or to utter the soothing, seductive tones of the trickster. You are in a position to inspire many people to believe whatever you choose to say. That's all the more reason why you should take care to say something that's really worth paying attention to .
Whenever we opt to wipe an event from our memory or banish a fact from our mind, we pay quite a heavy price. It is never possible to alter our own understanding of reality with pinpoint precision. Wherever an unhappy idea has to be exorcised, other important mental and emotional truths will inevitably go with it. We may end up left with a litany of facts that we can't face and problems whose existence we dare not even acknowledge. Fool anyone (if you really want to) today. But don't try to fool yourself.
The world, it sometimes seems, is full of woefully insensitive individuals. They don't even realise how selfish they are being or how rude or unkind. But then, they are insensitive! What else could we expect of them? This raises a big question about an appropriate response to such behaviour. Should it be met with retribution or education? Even if it is possible to combine the two, ought it not to be more important to convey an understanding than to exact revenge?
Somehow now, you must be delicate and wise.We all love the old children's story about the emperor's new clothes. Nobody dared criticise this invisible outfit until a small innocent child shouted out, 'His majesty is naked!' Right now, you have the potential power to be either the refreshing voice of realism or to utter the soothing, seductive tones of the trickster. You are in a position to inspire many people to believe whatever you choose to say. That's all the more reason why you should take care to say something that's really worth paying attention to .
Whenever we opt to wipe an event from our memory or banish a fact from our mind, we pay quite a heavy price. It is never possible to alter our own understanding of reality with pinpoint precision. Wherever an unhappy idea has to be exorcised, other important mental and emotional truths will inevitably go with it. We may end up left with a litany of facts that we can't face and problems whose existence we dare not even acknowledge. Fool anyone (if you really want to) today. But don't try to fool yourself.
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