How to handle negative emotions?-1. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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There are two kinds of mind.
One is an open mind.
Another is a closed mind.
A closed mind is that which says, “This is how it is. I know it. That is it.”
It gets hardened.
An open mind says, “Oh, maybe, perhaps. I do not know.”
Limited knowledge, and the conformity about it, makes a mind very hard.

Whenever you seem to understand a situation and you label it, “I know this is how it is,” that is the beginning of your problem.
And always all problems arise from knowing but not from not knowing.
If you do not know, your mind is open, you say “Oh, maybe, something, perhaps, don’t know.” You wait.
You cannot label something when you do not know.

Whenever you think an injustice has been made to you, or whenever you think you are suffering, whenever you think you are a victim, whenever you think something bad has happened to you— all this falls under the category of “I know it.
This is how things are.”
Whenever we attach a label “not good,” it comes from a thorough knowledge.

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 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar