All of us are so liable to human error that unless we have some capacity to bear with the errors of others, we will not be able to maintain a lasting relationship with anybody.... - "Words to Live By," Eknath Easwaran, November 2.
I read recently that we need to imagine all the people around us, especially the irritating people, as mini Buddhas which will pull us back from judging so harshly. I picture all those irritating people as mini mes...then I have a vested interest in understanding them, in putting their interests first...the vested interest being me, of course.
Again I remind myself that it is not the person irritating me who needs to change, nor is it fundamentally me. It is my willingness to detach from my own opinions, from my own perceptions, to divorce myself from my own wants that I need to cultivate. Thinking about which of my defects I need to change...asking God to change for me...is just going down that wrong road again, and calling it spiritual work.
Go to God for God. That is all. God knows my questions and how to answer them in the best possible way for me, personally. Go to God for God, and let my answers be revealed...the questions are irrelevant.
Thank You.
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