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Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human
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5. The Art of Personality
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Thinking
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Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human
5. The Art of Personality
Thinking
Another aspect of the art of personality is sympathetic and right thinking. By right thinking all one naturally says and does becomes right, because the root of every speech and action is in the mind. So by right thinking one naturally speaks and acts rightly; one cannot do otherwise. But what generally happens is that one never considers it in connection with others: if there is any wrong it is in the other. And it is very wonderful that the one who is most in the wrong, is the one who sees most wrong in others. You will see that the person who is full of wrong knows a thousand wrongs about a thousand people.
Besides, our experiences make us so pessimistic that if anyone says, "I have seen someone who is such a nice, kind and good person", we begin to doubt. Unconsciously our first thought is, "Can it be true? No, it cannot be true; there is no such thing as good in the world." And as soon as someone says, "I have seen such a wicked person", everybody is interested, because people believe that. It shows that, as we always experience wrong things, we hardly expect that ever there can be something right.
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