Your honest and detailed sharing was quite useful. It just helps to notice changes in attitude in similar situations over a period of time and I am happy about meditation practice too. Acceptance and surrender are difficult but really let go of creating issues which cause unnecessary disturbance within ourselves.

The passage is very important for me, as I consider that I need to learn a lot in communication skills. Few points from the passage were eye openers, as I didn't realize that trying to accumulate and gain, is creating a problem to my learning and listening. Open minded learning is like a child learns , extremely fast, profound and in huge quantity.

This poem is amazing. It just strikes few chords and opens up the heart and mind. Thank you for making us realize that love is possible for all and self in different situations and thoughts. Greatness in love, unconditional love may become realistic when this poetry can be practised and lived.
Amen.

I agree with the point that several people who have meditated for years may not have learned this. This does opens my mind to look at what patterns of behaviour, emotions or situations hook / disrupt my attention. What are those situations / thoughts which make me lose my peace of mind or self control? If I am able to see those and learn to handle them with more insight and observation,that shall resolve several awareness problems and cause permanent, positive change in attitude.

Never thought of this before that 'Nature forces us to give, sooner or later'. So true and that's why our journey on this earth is long and repetitive until we learn, God gives us chance again and again. We are recycled in death and get a new life to start from where we left, kindness / giving and soul liberation.
Another inspiring , powerful passage from Swami Vivekananda.

When I see a determined attitude, I observe an ego today. Even when I am able to do something or give up something by self- control and determination an ego comes into picture. Realised this now, this article has enabled this new vision. 

I could see the ego in thoughts multiple times today. This post was helpful. 

I used to have arguments with peopl when I felt they were not following what is correct and value-oriented. This was a common ground for my being angry and expressing it too on few people. This was common at work or when I had to deal with people in society as nowadays people in a highly competitive India are ready to forego values and honesty for getting money or success. I joined a company where the manager was speaking lies, playing politics and making wrong use of power to  get success and prevent me from establising myself. I got angry and escalated. I was tense all the time to prevent any wrong from happenign against me and fighting , complaining in company. One day, when senior manager listened to me, I just happened to realise that I am talking against a person who has taken pains and somehow made a career. I know he is using wrong means to be successful but somewhere I have lost love for him as a fellow human. I could see that in his struggle to save his position he was going against me all the more. In those moments I wrote an email where I accepted having made mistakes too. This gave him an upper hand in the case. He continued to go against me and I had to find another job for myself. It was a tough time but I knew that I did it out of love for another being as a person inspite of all mistakes. After that I have been able to see the human angle in others decisions and position, have been able to look at them with love and allow them to choose their values for their own life. I do still try to encourage people to follow good ethics but by setting an example and by love. It works in its own ways and sometimes much more than an aggressive attitude did. It leaves me and others at peace. It happened because of that one moment when I realised that I cannot drive any wrong against another person and put him and his family in problems inspite of he not following the moral values I consider as correct. An eye-opener and a war-stopper :) ... [View Full Comment] I used to have arguments with peopl when I felt they were not following what is correct and value-oriented. This was a common ground for my being angry and expressing it too on few people. This was common at work or when I had to deal with people in society as nowadays people in a highly competitive India are ready to forego values and honesty for getting money or success.
I joined a company where the manager was speaking lies, playing politics and making wrong use of power to  get success and prevent me from establising myself.
I got angry and escalated. I was tense all the time to prevent any wrong from happenign against me and fighting , complaining in company.
One day, when senior manager listened to me, I just happened to realise that I am talking against a person who has taken pains and somehow made a career. I know he is using wrong means to be successful but somewhere I have lost love for him as a fellow human. I could see that in his struggle to save his position he was going against me all the more. In those moments I wrote an email where I accepted having made mistakes too. This gave him an upper hand in the case. He continued to go against me and I had to find another job for myself.
It was a tough time but I knew that I did it out of love for another being as a person inspite of all mistakes.
After that I have been able to see the human angle in others decisions and position, have been able to look at them with love and allow them to choose their values for their own life. I do still try to encourage people to follow good ethics but by setting an example and by love. It works in its own ways and sometimes much more than an aggressive attitude did. It leaves me and others at peace.
It happened because of that one moment when I realised that I cannot drive any wrong against another person and put him and his family in problems inspite of he not following the moral values I consider as correct. An eye-opener and a war-stopper :) [Hide Full Comment]