Daily Meditation: Friday, September 10, 2004

Positive action - how to exercise a Positive action on people

09/10/2004

Human beings are extraordinary: they want to have a positive influence on people and things, but when they are given the means to do so, either they pay no attention or they reject them, because these means do not correspond to their point of view. But their point of view is neither good for others nor for themselves. If you really want to have a beneficial effect on people, begin by asking yourself how you think about them. Even if they are truly as inept, stupid, egotistic, dishonest and malicious as you think, stop focusing on their failings and pointing them out to others. With this attitude you reinforce their negative qualities and, because you continually attract these negative influences to yourself, you suffer harm as well. Since this law pertains to all realms, try to apply it not only in your relations with the people you encounter, but with the objects around you as well.