If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.
Interpretation
Forgiving those who hurt you can lead to inner peace.
This quote highlights the importance of letting go of the pain inflicted by others as a personal challenge and a means to achieve tranquility. By choosing to release resentment and injury, one can cultivate a sense of serenity and emotional well-being, signifying that true strength lies in forgiveness rather than holding onto grudges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and emotional health.
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.
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.
To whom God will, there be the victory.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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