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 ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
Why donβt you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
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