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219 - Acceptance of Others

Stoic Coffee Break

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Why Do We Have the Right to Determine What Is Best for Others?

Most of the problems in our lives and throughout humanity, have been because one party tries to ompose their will. So i want to read a little bit from a chapter called a our illusion about others from the book awareness by anthony de mellow. A young man came to complain that his girl friend had let him down, that she had played false. What are you complaining about? Did you expect any better? Expect the worst. Your dealing selfish people. They're not nice. They're as bad as you are bad. And what do you think? They are going to seek their own self interest? Exactly like you, no difference. Can you imagine how liberating it is that

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