Before You Leave Someone || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to end friendships over differences? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00When two persons walk together for any length of time, obviously one of them at some point

00:07would find himself walking a bit faster. That does not mean that you leave the other one behind.

00:12That also does not mean that you are obliged to carry the other one on your shoulders all your

00:16life. It's a measure of humanness to try to help people, especially the people who have been with

00:22you when you were younger, less brighter, less conscious. You have to ask yourself,

00:27have I tried hard enough to somehow save the relationship? I'm not saying that you start

00:32accepting that person as he or she is, but no attempt to improve the other can succeed without

00:38compassion. Even if you want to change the other, you have to understand where the other is coming

00:44from. And you also have to appreciate that not too long back, you were much in the same position as

00:50the other.