FOR OFFENDED FEELINGS

New Zealand Tablet, 14 April 1910, Page 597

FOR OFFENDED FEELINGS

„„„ T think about something else is the best and only sure cure for offended feeling.,. To think about the un kindliness, its injustice, its meanness of spirit, and all its other ugly aspects—only adds to its sting and deepens our own suffering + or auger This hurts us and one Eggs are not the only things that are given added life and power by being brooded over. If wo want to enlarge and multiply everything large and unpleasant in that which has offended us, brooding over it will do it. If we want to have done with it and get it out of our life as quickly as possible to turn deliberately away from it and concent trate our thought and energy upon something else is our sure road to success. When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence can not reach it Descartes is credited with saying. But we cannot lift ourselves by mere will-power. We can lose ourselves by devotion to something else—and thus we can lose the offence.