Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.
Interpretation
Embrace acceptance of others' choices instead of waiting for them to conform to your expectations.
This quote encourages individuals to stop expecting others to change in order to fit their personal desires or beliefs. Instead, it advocates for recognizing and respecting the autonomy of each person to make their own choices, even if those choices may annoy us. By understanding and accepting that everyone has the right to be themselves, we foster greater harmony and peace in our relationships.
In practice
During a team meeting to encourage open-mindedness about different working styles.
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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