Today's reflection
Today's reflection
Read slowly, notice the line that feels useful, and let it guide one small action today.
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It is our thoughtfulness for everyone that brings us an outstanding blessing that makes us become extremely intelligent in doing business as well as everything in life. If we become spiritual cultivators, we will also be incredibly profound. In this way, the cause of stopping shallow moral thoughts helps us become thoughtful and talented in life and in spiritual practice.
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Today's reflection
Read slowly, notice the line that feels useful, and let it guide one small action today.
Janna Quotes
Janna Quotes: thoughtful quotes for reflection and daily practice.

Thus, it turns out that the strength of moral people is the ability to endure others’ bad habits. The more we can endure others’ bad habits, the higher our morality is. Endurance means that we do not get mad at their bad habits. It doesn’t mean that we collude with their wrongdoings. That they are evil, wrong, selfish, and greedy doesn’t make us angry. But we don’t keep silent; we have a better scheme to make them better. The measurement of our morality is based on how much we can endure the ruthlessness of people in life.

To justify ourselves properly if we can. It would not help if we blindly ignore others’ wrong thoughts about us. If they misunderstand us, then once they learn the truth, they will feel guilty. Therefore, if we have any chances to let them know the truth, we should do that at all costs, which can help others avoid an undeliberate sin.

A little selfishness can also make one’s heart ugly. A little bit of greed for success can also make one’s heart dirty. A piece of arrogance can also make one’s heart corrupted. Recognizing this, wise people will always embrace morality because it is the beauty of the soul, and beauty of the soul in itself is happiness.

We should be wise and moral enough to control ourselves over our eagerness for success. We need to know when we should try to win and when we should resign ourselves. Sometimes we lose but we feel easy. Sometimes we win but we feel regretful for the rest of our life. As a saying of a Saint goes, “To conquer thousands of enemy troops cannot compare with conquering ourselves.” We ourselves distinguish right from wrong and good from evil.

We are sorrowful because we want to avoid sorrow. The more we want to avoid sorrow, the more sorrowful we are. The key to ending sorrow is to accept it. It is very surprising that when we are courageous enough to accept the sorrow, the sorrow will go away.

Adversities are not rare in life. They can be a financial hardship, a health problem, a serious accident, or a defamation, a damage towards our prestige and position, or a love problem, etc. If our spirit is weak and fragile, we are engulfed in those adversities. We must have enough.

Doing good deeds is an upward step, but remembering them is a backward step. Humans keep going upward then backward like this, which prevents them from attaining absolute saintliness.

People who can be strict with themselves never allow themselves to do wrong, and if they do it by accident, they will feel remorseful all the time. They are both wise and courageous and will surely gain the rebirth in heaven.

In life, humans often hate talented and good people. Generally, it is because we are afraid that others can succeed more than us. This psyche is called Envy. It seems a temporary win for us if we can suppress a good and talented person, but it is a loss for the whole society indeed. Our society needs many good and talented people to develop. Thus, if we keep trying to eliminate such people, we are apparently destroying our society.
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