Patience & Tolerance

Be patient with all. Anger leads one along a blind path. While it irritates and annoys others, it also hurts oneself. Anger weakens the physical body and disturbs the mind. A harsh word, like an arrow discharged from a bow, can never be retracted even if you offer a thousand apologies.

Certain creatures cannot see in the daytime whilst some others are blind at night, but a man, who is driven to intense hatred, does not observe anything, either by day or night.

When you are angry, who do you fight with? What do you fight with? You fight with yourself, for you are the worst enemy of yourself. The mind is your best friend but it can easily become your worst foe. Some types of heart trouble, rheumatic disorders, and skin diseases are traceable to chronic resentment, hatred and jealousy. Such destructive feelings poison the heart. They foster the development of latent diseases by reducing the body's natural defences against disease microbes.