“Why harbor negative feelings when you can cherish positive ones? Why choose to hate someone when you can love life and live?”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 9
In other words
Reasons to dislike almost anyone can be found when the mind keeps searching. People disappoint, cross boundaries, succeed where we feel weak, and offer many small injuries that can be gathered into hate.
Attention gives those reasons their emotional life. The more space they receive, the more the person being hated occupies a mind that might have been enjoying something better. Hatred keeps the injury present even when the other person is gone.
Choosing not to hate does not excuse what happened or require affection. It protects the limited inner space in which life is felt. Positive feeling can be cherished there instead, leaving more room to love living than to keep another person’s wrong alive.
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