What do you do when you hate somebody? Byron Katie says, ask yourself whose business you're in. Pretty much every time, it's not yours. My checkpoint says, does this hate, this thought, own you or you it? Most definitely I am the one being possessed here. Eckhart Tolle might say, let go of your ego. For it is exactly the part that is telling me my hatred is justified. But what do you do when these realizations are not enough to quell the anger?
Well, I turn to another one of the greats. Though lesser-known and unpublished (in words at least), his sage advice calms my spirit every time. "
It's like with Bellamy (my dog)", he says. "
There is no point in yelling at him for peeing on the floor. It's what he does. He's a dog. So, you just take him as he is, good parts and bad." Ahh... I didn't realize it at the time, but I married quite a guru.
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so are you saying i should except my chihuahuas peeing and pooping on the floor, too? and their barking? and their annoying way of inserting their tongues in your open mouth when you aren't paying attention?
Yes; all except the tongue thing, that's just gross.
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