Friday, July 2, 2010

What is respect?


Respect is nothing but learning to 
recognize the strength of one's sacrifice, 
accepting and appreciating another's ability
to focus on the self and placing the one before yourself,
by humbly attempting to learn and follow another's lead 
of goodness, and thus, being inspired in this process to 
eliminate one's own faults by focusing your attention 
only on another's spiritual strengths and gains. 

Realize and recognize that even the one 
you deplore and detest has, at least, one strength 
that you can appreciate - live to exaggerate that strength, 
and thus, wipe your own weakness of hatred that stains 
the purity of your heart. 

There is no living being that does not deserve 
the offering of respect - there must be no one 
that must be degraded or humiliated by exposing 
and ridiculing their faults, for each one has buried 
himself in another heap of filthy faults.