There are some people with whom no amount of talking to and explaining yourself ever gets you to a place of mutual understanding. Although you are seemingly speaking the same language and are even employing the same words. While there are others with whom you only have to exchange a glance or a smile and everything is crystal clear between you and you both know that you are understanding each other perfectly.
Of course, the latter kind of exchange is much more satisfactory and pleasing than the first can ever be, even if you enjoy talking much and for a long time. However, both situations hold the potential to teach you more about yourself and your current state of mind and being. The one in making you realize what you are not, the other in giving you a momentary reflection of you own personal self. And since the purpose of personal life is to learn to love unconditionally, both kind of encounter also offer you the possibility to come to love more. If you feel understood or feel you understand someone of course loving is much easier than if you feel misunderstood or estranged by your vis-a-vis. However, a love that has been achieved by overcoming initial personal resistance is of more worth and more endurable that one that which requires no personal effort on your part. Therefore, confront someone entirely different from you can prove to be a very enriching experience if you face the situation in the right state of mind.
And once you have transcended you "I" (Ego), you come to realize that it ultimately does not matter if you are being verbally and personally understood by the people around you or if you personally understand them for as long as you are meeting them in a loving attitude.
Of course, the latter kind of exchange is much more satisfactory and pleasing than the first can ever be, even if you enjoy talking much and for a long time. However, both situations hold the potential to teach you more about yourself and your current state of mind and being. The one in making you realize what you are not, the other in giving you a momentary reflection of you own personal self. And since the purpose of personal life is to learn to love unconditionally, both kind of encounter also offer you the possibility to come to love more. If you feel understood or feel you understand someone of course loving is much easier than if you feel misunderstood or estranged by your vis-a-vis. However, a love that has been achieved by overcoming initial personal resistance is of more worth and more endurable that one that which requires no personal effort on your part. Therefore, confront someone entirely different from you can prove to be a very enriching experience if you face the situation in the right state of mind.
And once you have transcended you "I" (Ego), you come to realize that it ultimately does not matter if you are being verbally and personally understood by the people around you or if you personally understand them for as long as you are meeting them in a loving attitude.
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