Know When To Fold ‘Em, Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run…

by Wendy Keller

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Four Steps to Handling Conflict with People You Love

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One of my favorite sayings at times like this comes from a sales book published in the 1960s( before I was even born!)  I read it when I was about 18, working in sales as an agent for a modelling agency:

“A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”

Just agree to let go. Return to your own life, your own inner peace, your own serenity. Other people will do as they will. If you engage, you fuel their fire. Let yourself be yourself and allow their drama to slip past you without trying to change What Is.

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...not of Sumatra, though! And his last name's Watson...:P

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"Words" by Anne Sexton

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous we do our best,
sometimes they swarm like insects
and leave not a sting but a kiss.
They can be as good as fingers.
They can be as trusty as the rock
you stick your bottom on.
But they can be both daisies and bruises.

( ...Yet I am in love with words... )

198: One Star Fell and Another

“One Star Fell and Another”
Conrad Aiken

One star fell and another as we walked.
Lifting his hand towards the west, he said--
--How prodigal that sky is of its stars!
They fall and fall, and still the sky is sky.
Two more have gone, but heaven is heaven still.

Then let us not be precious of our thought,
Nor of our words, nor hoard them up as though
We thought our minds a heaven which might change
And lose its virtue, when the word had fallen.
Let us be prodigal, as heaven is:
Lose what we lose, and give what we may give,--

( Let us be reckless of our words and worlds... )