If….
If you can live without caffeine,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without long lasting resentment,
If you can ignore a friend’s limited education and never correct him or her,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can honestly say that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, gender preference, or politics,
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–Then you have almost reached the same level of spiritual development as your dog!
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Profound wisdom! Result pretty humbling but surely enlightening.Thanks for sharing it.
PS-I love the soulful eyes of the dog,brimming with unconditional love…..
So close…I am openly going to admit, the only one I have not achieved…is the very last one.
I have the others, but when I had the last one as a no…I said…I am not enlightened after all.
So far away from enlightenment it’s not even funny , I think im gonna stop trying !! :-(
I think after God created us, and saw how messed up we were, he decided to give us a roll model that we would hopefully learn from. My wife and I live with a chocholate lab who gives us that identical look from time to time.