The ABC of Enlightenment

just twenty-four hours – try not to react, not to reject, whatsoever happens.

Don’t help this wound to grow.

People can waste a whole life over a small thing, just because someone insulted them.

humanity is a way of avoiding human beings: because you can’t love human beings you start loving humanity just to deceive yourself.
Avoid abstractions.

If a word brings misery, anger, conflict, argument, drop it. What is the point in carrying it? Replace it by something better. The best is silence. Next best is singing, poetry, love.

Use fresh words, noncontroversial, which are not arguments but which are just expressions of your feelings.

A single word uttered in unconsciousness can create a long chain of misery.

So never use logical, argumentative language. Use the language of affection, of caring, of love, so that no argument arises.