Should I take revenge on his enemies
Our enemies would have danced for joy if I knew how much anxiety, torment and the trouble they are delivered to us. Our hatred is not causing them harm, but it makes our days and nights into nightmares, exhausting, undermines the health and spoils the appearance, and ultimately shortens the life.
Do you think someone has said: "If bad people want to take you delete from your life, but do not try to settle accounts with them. Wanting to avenge someone, you first harm yourself, not your enemy"? You would think that they said the starry-eyed idealist? Nothing like that. Not a word taken from a bulletin issued by the Milwaukee Police Department.
I'm not trying to persuade you to love your enemies, but to think, at least, love yourself. Often remember the words of Shakespeare: "Do not melt the oven for his enemies too much, otherwise you will burn it themselves."
Scary is not something that you cheated or robbed - Confucius said - okay if you are constantly aware of this. Once I asked General Eisenhower's son John, can I call him father vindictive, "No, - he said - Dad does not think for a minute about the people who disliked him."
Ancient proverb: a fool who never gets angry. But wise is the only one who does not want to be angry. Here is an example, William J. Gaynor, a former mayor of New York, maliciously maligned in the press. After this was found maniac who shot the mayor and almost killed him. Lying in a hospital, Gaynor courageously fought for her life while, in the words, "every night mentally forgave all the people." Enthusiastic idealism? Too much goodness and light of faith? But let us turn to the great German philosopher Schopenhauer, author of "Investigation of the pessimism." His soul was filled with sadness and despair, he looked at life as pointless and agonizing experience. And that he exclaimed: "If possible, do not try to anyone hostile!".
Once I talked to Bernard Baruch - a man who was an attorney advisor to six presidents: Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman. When I asked how he reacted to the attacks of his opponents, Baruch replied: "No man can humiliate me or call my anger. I will not let him do it."
No one can humiliate and frustrate you if you do not want it.
Perhaps no politician in American history was not subjected to such insults and slander, and do not face such a strong hatred of enemies, as Abraham Lincoln. But he never judge people by their attitude toward him. If demanded by some important business, he could instruct him even his enemy. Despite the slander and personal insults foes Lincoln appoint them to positions that best suits them. He did not distinguish between enemies and friends, when it came to work.
Lincoln was severely attacked by the people who take positions in his government, the highest positions. However, as the author recalls the classic biography of the President, his legal adviser Herndon. Lincoln believed that "no one person should not be praised or blamed for acts committed by him, because we are all somehow affected by the conditions, circumstances, environment, education, habits learned and inherited traits," It is these factors shape a person and make him for what it is and what will remain forever. "
Perhaps Lincoln rights. In all probability, e <1 and you and I inherited the physical, intellectual and emotional features of our enemies, and life would put us in just such circumstances, we would have acted the same way as they are. Perhaps, we could not carry themselves differently.
