As Adapted from Thich Nhat Hanh by Don Boice
Dealing with Your Own Struggles First
We need to be able to handle our own loneliness, suffering, and anger before we can truly help people.
… people are in your life to be helped and not to be punished.
Long hours of work can be very destructive, frightening, and unhealthy. Let us be empathetic and compassionate… If you continue, you may find yourself feeling depleted and angry all the time, feeling like your spirit is malnourished. This can take a toll on you and your family.
Your depression and anger are like a hungry belly rumbling for food.
Nothing can survive without food. Not anger, not violence, not peace…
You must nourish and feed your love with the appropriate food, or your love will turn to hatred.
If you look deeply into the nature of your anger and identify the source of nutrients that you have used to feed it, you are already on the path of freedom.
If we notice that we are blocked by fear, anger, despair, it is because we are constantly stirred up.
We have the seeds within us and need to stop feeding them.
If we don’t start feeding the positive ones and only try to do with the symptoms we won’t go extremely far.
Dealing with Your Own Struggles First
We need to be able to handle our own loneliness, suffering, and anger before we can truly help people.
… people are in your life to be helped and not to be punished.
Long hours of work can be very destructive, frightening, and unhealthy. Let us be empathetic and compassionate… If you continue, you may find yourself feeling depleted and angry all the time, feeling like your spirit is malnourished. This can take a toll on you and your family.
Your depression and anger are like a hungry belly rumbling for food.
Nothing can survive without food. Not anger, not violence, not peace…
You must nourish and feed your love with the appropriate food, or your love will turn to hatred.
If you look deeply into the nature of your anger and identify the source of nutrients that you have used to feed it, you are already on the path of freedom.
If we notice that we are blocked by fear, anger, despair, it is because we are constantly stirred up.
We have the seeds within us and need to stop feeding them.
If we don’t start feeding the positive ones and only try to do with the symptoms we won’t go extremely far.
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