August 30, 2021
What do you think? Is it true? Share your thoughts in the comments.
With loving kindness and gratitude,
NZain๐
August 30, 2021
What do you think? Is it true? Share your thoughts in the comments.
With loving kindness and gratitude,
NZain๐
I think it’s true. When I can see the traits that hurt or annoy me in someone else, I can look within myself, to better myself. We cannot change anyone else, maybe even not the situation around us, but we can change self. Become the best “me” we can be! ๐ Just my opinion and thoughts.
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Love it, Renee. And sometimes the only way we can change ourselves is by distancing from others who hurt or annoy us…๐๐๐ท
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I second that. So true!๐๐๐
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I think wrong.
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๐๐ป thank you…if you would like to add more please do.
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Partly true. I think it also leads us to a greater understanding of people in general – including people who are nothing like us.
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Yes! Thank you for adding this. I completely agree with you. ๐
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True, I think. Everything has something to teach us if we are open to learn. It doesnโt have to mean that the irritation is something that is also in yourself. You could learn something about yourself by the way you react to whatever it is. Why do you feel the way that you do about whatever it is. And I agree with Renee that we can never change others. We can only affect change in ourselves. ๐๐ค๐ฆ
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Suzanne, Iโve been pondering your words the last couple of daysโin between trying to sleep off the Covid vaccination. ๐ด
Key wordsโif we are open to learn. Not taking what other people do or donโt do personallyโas if we are the cause…how we react. What is triggering the reaction? Having compassion for the other personโs experience. Itโs complicated. Thank you so much for your insightsโI need to write in my journal…๐๐ท๐ฆ๐
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Yes – thereโs the thing – to not take it personally as if we are the cause. Everyone has a thousand things going on inside and we donโt know the half of them. And To have compassion for the other personโs experience gives us compassion for our own. We are so often so very hard on ourselvesโฆ. ๐ฆ๐๐ทโบ๏ธ
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We are so very hard… Just to step back and let the other have their thousand thingsโwithout adding โour personal thingโ on top…some breathing room to let everyone relax and focus on themselves. The irritation becomes a Pearl. ๐ฆ๐๐ค
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Thatโs a beautiful thought .. the irritation becomes a Pearl ๐ค๐๐ฆ.
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Just give it time to work it out…๐๐๐ฆ
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http://simplepilgrim.blog/2021/09/09/the-fairy/
I want to share this with you…๐๐ฆ๐
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Thank youโฆ itโs lovely ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ค
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Yes….๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐
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Sometimes those irritations act as if we are looking back into a mirror at ourselves.
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Thatโs why it can be so irritating! But given time, that which irritates becomes a pearl.
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Honest and inspiring words!
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Glad they inspire…
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