Creating Tolerance and World Peace

Posts Tagged ‘Reacting’

Genuine relationships between couples include the ability of both to tolerate one another at every level. Some human habits are easier to accept than others. How about your husband’s violence toward the neighborhood dog that just bit your child? Hmmm. Can you handle that? It’s a gray area. It’s hard to see clearly though the fog of this one. How does that situation at home make you react away from home? Key: do you react or act?

Violence is not tolerated by most peaceful people. But what is violence? Is it murder? Is it the feelings you have for the driver on the freeway that just cut you off and almost hit you in the process? Is it the form of anger that shows up in a volleyball match with a score of 13 all?

Where is this emotion coming from that blinds you? Fear.

You fear that your child may be killed. You fear the driver on the freeway could cost you money or your life. You fear losing the volleyball match. Self-preservation has to be tended to very carefully. Perception is everything. Emotion fogs perception.

The dog bit your son because he was tormenting it.

The man that cut you off was angry because you cut him off two miles back.

The real reason you ignited in anger at the girl who spiked the ball past your face?  She was the one who created the breakup between you and your former mate.

How is the relationship between you and your spouse? Is a volleyball match interrupting it? Are you carrying anger and fear with you in the outside world? Don’t kick the dog.

Reacting and acting. Choose the second. Your eyesight will clear up.