Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
Interpretation
Choosing kindness over the need to be right fosters peace in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of kindness in our interactions with others, particularly when faced with conflict or disagreement. It suggests that prioritizing being kind over being right can lead to a more peaceful and harmonious existence, as the pursuit of being right often escalates tensions and disputes.
In practice
During a team meeting when disagreements arise, opt to express empathy and understanding instead of asserting your viewpoint.
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.
One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in oneβs hand.
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
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