Message #38489

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I have met many people who are discouraged and depressed. I went through Amma’s council in the last hour and found quite a few entries on the subject. I was grateful that some were meant for my understanding as well. These are a few that I dug up…

“We see people in our own self concepts. That is why it's difficult to get along with others. Because of this it seems easier to get along with animals. Our expectations cause unfortunate circumstances. We have such expectations of others and criticize them for not being like we thought. We may say about him or her ' I never thought they were such a loser.'  Yet should we expect a nurse to be a doctor?  Can we expect a frog to be an elephant?

If you go to village and expect to see the culture of  a city you will be disappointed. When we get dissolutioned by the external nature of something our expectations are too high. It is not bad to have expectations yet we should recognize that there is positive and negative in others.”

~ Amma