Perhaps there is the assumption that by being right one gains in satisfaction. Perhaps we feel it is good for our self-image to be right, rather than wrong. However, isn’t it a beautiful feeling when we allow ourselves to be wrong? Why on earth do we make ourselves dependent on the idea that we have to be right? The most successful way to sort ourselves out needs a bit more courage than just taking revenge or upgrading our level of physical protection: We have to face ourselves more than the enemy ‘out there.’ The enemy out there is usually not as big and insistent as the internal enemy, the part of our mind that tells us so often that we have to be unhappy, and then it lists all the terrible things that were done to us victims. What a terrible world to live in, indeed, the world of our dark minds. The intellect will find innumerable reasons why we are not only entitled to unhappiness but even forced to live unhappily.
This is our own intellect’s conclusion, our own assumption, our belief! How limiting this is! How about turning the content of our minds and hearts around without denying the past? How about allowing us to sense love and peace and forgiveness, in spite of it all! It is our choice. Peace is not blindness in the face of reality. Peace is the waking up to a more profound reality within ourselves that will become stronger and stronger if we give it our attention. Equipped with the power of peace, we’ll see a change in the way the environment treats us. Check it out for yourself before you try to dismiss this opportunity to wake up to your innate beauty, the beauty of recognizing your free and loving spirit.
Of course it is much better to be happy than right – and you can’t be both. So let it go there is an enormous feeling of liberation in allowing yourself to be ok with not having to be right . It may be more important for that other person to be right than you – let it be.