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The Culture of Spirituality
When we react to a negative experience and start
fighting with another person, we are not merely fighting
with a person, but are rather infringing upon with his
freedom, which is part of nature and not part of that
person. Because we cannot abolish freedom, the result
will be that we will be fighting all the time. Thus, we
will live in frustration and negativity, and that being so,
we will lose our greatest assets – spirituality and positive
thinking.
To save our own freedom, we have to tolerate the
freedom of others. And to save our own spirituality, we
have to overlook the misuse of freedom by others. We
have to ignore others’ undesirable behaviour in order
to ensure that our own personality development will
proceed along the right lines.
This is the wise way of living in this world. It is the
way of patience. It is, in the last analysis, the realistic
approach to life. We must simply accept things as they
are.
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