Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Interpretation
Anger creates a cycle of negativity, while forgiveness and love foster a cycle of positivity.
This quote by Mahavira highlights the idea that emotions are contagious and cyclical. When people respond to anger with more anger, it perpetuates a cycle of hostility and conflict. Conversely, responding to negativity with forgiveness and love can break this cycle and encourage a more compassionate and understanding environment. Essentially, our emotional responses can significantly influence the dynamics of our relationships and communities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about conflict resolution.
If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, VΓ‘clav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
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