if we wish to remain in harmony
while coming in contact with other minds,
because what we meet in other minds
has a tendency to modify the conditions of our own minds.
Our thoughts about other people
are more or less deeply impressed on our own minds;
therefore we cannot afford to think anything wrong about anybody.
An ideal mind is always looking for the best in everybody,
always magnifying and encouraging the best,
always adding to the life and power of the best.
Give more attention to the good qualities
than to the weakness we may find in others.
Give so much attention to the good qualities
that practically no attention whatever is given
to those qualities that seem weak or inferior at the time.
We must think of people as they are in themselves
as not as they appear to be while out of harmony with existence.
When we are judging man we should judge the real man
and not his mistakes.
We frequently go too far in trying to make people accept
what they cannot appreciate.
The better we understand life the more convinced we become
that the average person is doing the best he knows how.
Never try to compel others to change;
leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to;
and they will want to change
when they find that your change was worthwhile.
Make the most of yourself in your way,
and leave everybody free
to make the most of themselves in their way.
Your one desire will be to perfect your own life, thought and action;
you will find that the mastery of yourself
will require all of your time and the whole of your attention,
and you will interfere with others no more.
Be a friend to everybody - the whole world.
Expect everybody to be good to you
and desire constantly to be of real service to the entire human race.
what they cannot appreciate.
The better we understand life the more convinced we become
that the average person is doing the best he knows how.
Never try to compel others to change;
leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to;
and they will want to change
when they find that your change was worthwhile.
Make the most of yourself in your way,
and leave everybody free
to make the most of themselves in their way.
Your one desire will be to perfect your own life, thought and action;
you will find that the mastery of yourself
will require all of your time and the whole of your attention,
and you will interfere with others no more.
Be a friend to everybody - the whole world.
Expect everybody to be good to you
and desire constantly to be of real service to the entire human race.
