Don't hate others for what they have said or done to you. Especially for what they have said.. See beyond the moment then. Be void of your personal emotions. Take it with a pinch of salt. Be present, maybe you will see the real reasons.
In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'. This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralysing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humour, above all, has its due place.
-- Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
Sunday, June 5, 2011
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