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Today's
Meditation:
It's
almost a contradiction in terms to say "simply"
"live and let live." For most of us, that
seems to be one of the most difficult things in the world to
do, for we all see better than others which are the best
ways to live, and which are the best things to do for
ourselves. It seems like the human being was born to
give advice and to try to control the actions and thoughts
of others, for we sure do spend a lot of time trying to do
so.
Those
of us who are lucky, though, see early on just how harmful
that is to others and to ourselves. We see just how
much frustration it causes everyone involved, and we realize
that if we don't try to do that any more, we won't have to
deal with the frustration any more.
Then
we see, once we've stopped trying to advise others of what
they should do in order to be happy, just how pleasant life
can be when we mind our own business and when we allow
ourselves to be pleasant to others no matter what they're
doing, no matter whether we think it's best for them or
not. Most people on this planet can be quite happy
living in the ways that they see to be best.
We're
put here to live our lives. The other people in our
lives have been put here to live theirs, not to live
according to what we think theirs should be like. If
we love them and we love ourselves, we'll let them live the
way they see best fit, and we won't condemn them for
mistakes, whether we could see those mistakes coming or not.
Live
and let live. What a beautiful idea.
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