So many of us are terrified of those different to ourselves, we get all bent out of shape when people change; because we expected them to remain as they were.

The suffering we all endure is rooted in misunderstanding, fear of losing what we have and fear of letting things we don’t like happen to us.

The more fixed our mindset is about the way we expect others to behave, and things to be done, the more prone we are to ignorance, attachment and aversion. The more we’ll drag ourselves down when our ideal conditions aren’t met, and we’ll take others down with us into the quagmire of complaint and discontent.

Each day we have an opportunity to see and do things differently, it doesn’t matter who we’ve been, where we’ve come from or what we’ve done before.

Each day we could wake up and ask ourselves, “am I going to embrace all situations and all people equally, am I going to cultivate the openness to accept and understand, or I am going to keep fighting against everything I dislike.”

Acceptance, understanding and happiness or grasping, ignorance and war?

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