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**dodsCooggipsedebt** · 02-24-2010, 08:21 PM

How does one find it in oneself to find an open, compassionate space for the things one finds unbearable and unacceptable?

It's a bit of a cliche but true, I think, nonetheless. If you can acknowledge and make friends with all your own unbearable traits then you'll find other peoples' easier to forgive too. Very often we want to change other people when we find our own imperfections unacceptable. Those folk who are most tolerant of others are usually those who have looked into their own hearts and accepted everything they find there with kindness and understanding. Things don't have to be the way we want for us to make peace with them.

02-24-2010, 08:21 PM	#17
dodsCooggipsedebt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	How does one find it in oneself to find an open, compassionate space for the things one finds unbearable and unacceptable? It's a bit of a cliche but true, I think, nonetheless. If you can acknowledge and make friends with all your own unbearable traits then you'll find other peoples' easier to forgive too. Very often we want to change other people when we find our own imperfections unacceptable. Those folk who are most tolerant of others are usually those who have looked into their own hearts and accepted everything they find there with kindness and understanding. Things don't have to be the way we want for us to make peace with them.
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