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.
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
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