When we act out or tell someone off there is some relief for the moment, but it doesn’t last. If we surrender and drop the story line, there is tenderness under all that harshness. Being kind to ourselves, we become kind to others. This will bring us the relief we want.
Unify all areas of your life and unify all distinctions into a whole. There cannot be diversity within unity. When our consciousness is unified there is only brightness, all else disperses. This way you can embody all things.
We cannot attain clarity and simplicity by avoiding the world. Do your work, take care of others, practice virtue without expecting it of others and when you understand the higher truths, retain an ordinary manner. This is true clarity, true simplicity, true living.
Your only salvation when you are entangled in conflict is to be clear headed and outwardly strong. This will enable you to meet your opponent halfway. To carry the conflict to the end, even though you are right, will have bad effects for you because the enmity is then perpetuated.
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