What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or
irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way
he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example,
if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your
mind: You begin to think about what he said. You decide to get
angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to
act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the
thought, emotion, reaction, and action all take place in your mind.
When you become emotionally mature, you do not
respond negatively to the criticism and resentment of others.
To do so would mean that you had dèscended to that state
of low mental vibration and become one with the negative
atmosphere of the other. Identify yourself with your aim in
life, and do not permit any person, place, or thing to deflect
from your inner sense of peace, tranquility, and radiant
health.
The meaning of love in harmonious human relations.
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis,
said that unless the personality has love, it sickens and dies.
Love includes understanding, good will, and respect for the
divinity in the other person. The more love and good will
If you emanate and exude, the more comes back to you.
puncture the other fellow’s ego and wound his estimate of
himself, you cannot gain his good will. Recognize that every
man wants to be loved and appreciated, and made to feel of his true worth, and that, like yourself, he feels the dignity
important in the world. Realize that the other man is conscious
of being an expression of the One Life-Principle animating all
men. As you do this consciously and knowingly, you build the
other person up, and he returns your love and good will.