IF YOU want to be loved, start loving others who need your love. If
you expect others to be honest with you, then start being honest
yourself. If you do not want others to be wicked, then you must cease
to be evil yourself. If you want others to sympathize with you, start
showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected,
you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old. If
you want a display of peace from others, you must be peaceful
yourself. If you want others to be religious, start being spiritual
yourself.
Remember, whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself,
then you will find others responding in like manner to you.
It is easy to wish that others would behave perfectly toward you, and
it is easy to see their faults, but it is very difficult to conduct
yourself properly and to consider your own faults. If you can
remember to behave rightly, others will try to follow your example.
If you can find your own faults without developing an inferiority
complex, and can keep busy correcting yourself, then you will be
using your time more profitably than if you spent it in just wishing
others to be better. Your good example will do more to change others
than your wishing, your holy wrath, or your words.
The more you improve yourself, the more you will elevate others
around you. The self-improving man is the increasingly happy man. The
happier you become, the happier will be the people around you.
Stagnant people are unhappy. Extremely ignorant people scarcely know
how it feels to either be happy or unhappy. They are unfeeling, like
the stones. It is better to be unhappy about your own ignorance than
to die happily with it. Wherever you are, remain awake and alive with
your thought, perception, and intuition, ever ready, like a good
photographer, to take pictures of exemplary conduct and to ignore bad
behavior.
Your highest happiness lies in your being ever ready in desiring to
learn, and to behave properly.
you expect others to be honest with you, then start being honest
yourself. If you do not want others to be wicked, then you must cease
to be evil yourself. If you want others to sympathize with you, start
showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected,
you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old. If
you want a display of peace from others, you must be peaceful
yourself. If you want others to be religious, start being spiritual
yourself.
Remember, whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself,
then you will find others responding in like manner to you.
It is easy to wish that others would behave perfectly toward you, and
it is easy to see their faults, but it is very difficult to conduct
yourself properly and to consider your own faults. If you can
remember to behave rightly, others will try to follow your example.
If you can find your own faults without developing an inferiority
complex, and can keep busy correcting yourself, then you will be
using your time more profitably than if you spent it in just wishing
others to be better. Your good example will do more to change others
than your wishing, your holy wrath, or your words.
The more you improve yourself, the more you will elevate others
around you. The self-improving man is the increasingly happy man. The
happier you become, the happier will be the people around you.
Stagnant people are unhappy. Extremely ignorant people scarcely know
how it feels to either be happy or unhappy. They are unfeeling, like
the stones. It is better to be unhappy about your own ignorance than
to die happily with it. Wherever you are, remain awake and alive with
your thought, perception, and intuition, ever ready, like a good
photographer, to take pictures of exemplary conduct and to ignore bad
behavior.
Your highest happiness lies in your being ever ready in desiring to
learn, and to behave properly.
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