Give your conflicts time and space. In so doing, wisdom is given the opportunity to emerge from within you. Thereby, you will gain others’ respect.
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Where there is mutual respect, relationships flourish. Where there is disrespect, little can be achieved. With time and space, the situation is given the opportunity to come back into balance. Where there is balance, there is respect.
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Show respect even for the disrespectful yet without disrespecting yourself.
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The are only three elements (gunas) involved in all of your life: you, the ‘object’ lying outside of you, and the relationship between the two. One defines the other. Like three balls being juggled in the air, there is no bottom line upon which the three rest in place. The ever changing dynamic defines the realities… defines the view each has of the other.
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Your life is all about your relationship with people. Nothing and no one within the dynamic can be defined absolutely. Each reality has its own perspective. Yet so many seek the bottom line upon which they feel life will finally find perfect balance.
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Perfect lies only in the abstraction of the transcendental… beyond the grasp of anything within space and time… just as balance is not found within the balls being juggled. Instead balance lies within the juggler who eternally remains behind the scene, beyond the control of all three balls.
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Do not lose yourself within the three gunas. See beyond relativity, while still juggling within the relativities of life.
It is important to acknowledge that “time and space” work like a balm on conflicts…but wise actions are also required to move conflict into balance.
Those three elements of life, the three gunas or “three juggling balls” are pure action by their very nature. Life is dynamic and in-motion – from the depths of the transcendant to the surface of the physical.
So at some point, with time and space, wise action is also required…at least this is my experience…
Of course, the point is that if you truly give time and space to something, wisdom emerges naturally from within ones own nature. If you grit your teeth to give it time, then you are not also giving space, so wisdom remains suppressed. Wisdom, like space, cannot be forced. It can only be allowed. In other words, it is a natural process, not a contrived one. A blossom is not created by bending back the petals of the bud.