Has the ‘Heat Gone to the Head’?

28/06/2010 by Piercarla Garusi.

Some weeks ago I was walking down the street of a big Italian city and I heard these two pieces of conversations:

-          One lady was talking with a friend about another person and she said: “She did not accept my flowers, I would have slapped her”

-          Another lady was talking on the self-phone saying: “ I don’t know how he can be so stupid, it is just a question of a key, it does not require a great intelligence to understand it”

I was horrified.

I don’t know if it is because of the heat or people have gone completely out of centre.

Everything in the Universe is energy. Are they aware of how much negative energy they are putting out in the Universe, and so contributing to the general problems we are experiencing? What we put out, gets back to us. Are they aware of that?

And very importantly, are they aware of how very abusive their words were? Would they mind if they were treated in the same way? Are they aware of the effects their words and behaviors can have on the self-esteem and confidence of the people they were judging? Are they ready to recognize their words and behaviors, take responsibility for them, apologize and heal themselves? Are these people respecting themselves, as what they say, is never about the people they say, but it reflects the speaker?

Every person without exception deserves respect as a precious and unique human being.

Here are some definitions of respect:

- according to Wikipedia “ Respect denotes both a positive feeling of esteem for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem.”

-  according to the Webster online dictionary, respect means: “esteem, regard, consideration, honor”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

“We only see what we are”.
Debbie Ford 

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson

“Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.”
John Cogley Commonweal “The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.”
Eric Hoffer 

LOVE YOURSELF

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