Daily Meditation: Friday, August 13, 2010

Troubles - avoiding burdening one’s friends with them

08/13/2010

What pleasure can some people find in recounting the most negative and least appetizing details of their life? And then they are surprised when their friends avoid them or leave them. It's a really stupid attitude; it's better to hide those kinds of detail. You'll say you are unhappy, that you are suffering and need to confide in someone... I can believe it. But understand that others cannot be of much help in finding solutions to your problems; they already have trouble solving their own. So, why lay yours out for them as well? Not only are you wasting your time but you go down in your friends' esteem. They value you less: they realize you have neither wisdom nor self-control, and they are disappointed and withdraw from you. If you do not wish to lose your friends, don't go telling them your troubles, and don't complain. Just learn to connect with all the heavenly powers, with all the luminous entities, which are ready to help you and really will help you.